Makkabi Cologne reports “anti -Semitic riots” against players

The game of TFG Nippes 78 II against TuS Makkabi Cologne took place last Sunday. A normal game in the district league D – the deepest class in Cologne and the surrounding area. But apparently it was not a common game. According to Makkabi players, “massive anti-Semitic and violent attacks” arose against them. Accordingly, “the players were really insulted”, as the Jewish Association Makkabi Germany and Makkabi Cologne announced on Instagram in a statement. Be Expressions such as “dirty Jewish pack” and “Jewish pig”.

Two players were “spit on, others were physically attacked after the final whistle – choked, beaten, pulled on the hair”. “A spectator hit one of our players in the face,” it said. “We consider these acts not only as a severe physical Attackbut as a targeted anti -Semitic violence – against our players, our club and the Jewish life in German sport, “they continued.

The chairman of Makkabi Cologne, Witek Krymalowski, confirmed to the “Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung” that his club had filed a complaint with the Cologne public prosecutor. In addition, the sports court of the Association of Middle Rhine and the NRW Anti-Semitism representative, Sylvia Löhrmann, were informed. Hard consequences are required.

The umbrella organization Makkabi Germany did not want to comment on the exact process due to the criminal investigation. Speaker Jerome Buske emphasized at the request of the star, The fact that increased anti-Semitism in Germany “also affects our clubs directly: attacks on Makkabi players have increased massively in quantity and quality. What used to be verbal insults are physical attacks-right down to violence on the pitch”.

At the TFG Nippes 78 association, you don’t want to have noticed any insults during the game and afterwards. The head of football, Cengiz Kirat, rejected the allegations. “I’m shocked. I don’t understand that, I’m surprised by the claim,” he told the “FAZ”. He saw no attacks after the game that Makkabi reported. Also “nothing happened during the game, that went completely decent. I didn’t hear anything,” he said. In a statement by the Nippes 78 II team on Instagram, there is talk of “provocations” and “racism”. Apparently this means Makkabi player.

The criminal investigation is underway.

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