Media: RB Leipzig sues against audience limitation

Bundesliga club RB Leipzig has apparently filed a lawsuit against the 1,000 spectator limit of the current Saxon Corona Emergency Ordinance. That reports the image-Newspaper.

The report shows that the people of Leipzig have submitted an urgent application to the higher administrative court in Bautzen to overturn the existing rule, according to which only 1,000 spectators are allowed in the stadium, with a temporary order. the Leipziger Volkszeitung this information is also available.

RB Leipzig: Saxony limits capacity to 1,000 fans

Leipzig boss Oliver Mintzlaff said last in image: “Despite a minus of over 60 million euros in the past two years, we have had a lot of understanding for political decisions. But now is the point where every German citizen, every entrepreneur and every Bundesliga club can expect pragmatic, logical and understandable decisions .”

A new regulation is to be passed next Tuesday and will then apply until March 6th. But even this is currently again limited to 1,000 fans. It cannot be ruled out that other Bundesliga clubs will also complain.

Mintzlaff criticizes capacity restrictions: “Completely disproportionate”

Only in the middle of the week was a similar application by two Leipzig season ticket holders rejected by the Saxon Constitutional Court. However, the court then demanded that the capacity restrictions in the upcoming regulation be “justified without arbitrary reasons”.

Significantly more spectators are already allowed into the stadium again in several federal states, and indoor events with more than 1,000 people are even permitted in some cases. Mintzlaff: “There are more and more indoor events that are sometimes allowed to have a much higher capacity than we have in our arena with 1,000 spectators, for example. That is completely disproportionate.”