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The police are investigating several Maccabi fans after the game against VfB Stuttgart. Lyrics play a role here.
The protection of the city, the stadium, the fans and the crews is one of the largest missions that the Stuttgart police have ever put on its feet. And also on the second day, the day of the match in the Europa League between VfB Stuttgart and Maccabi Tel Aviv, they initially had good news at the end: “It has remained quiet,” says a spokeswoman for the Stuttgart police headquarters shortly before midnight.
A few incidents were then reported. A 21-year-old Maccabi fan is being investigated because he is said to have shown the police a Hitler salute on the way to the stadium. In addition, the focus is on the songs of some of the approximately 400 fans of the team from Tel Aviv, who met at the fan meeting point in the castle garden: There are said to have been defamatory lines. When asked, the police confirmed that one of the songs - which is said to have been chanted during riots in Amsterdam - allegedly contained the lyrics “In Gaza there are no more schools because there are no children anymore” - a cruel allusion to the Gaza war. The other had misogynistic fantasies of violence and rape - combined with the contempt of Arabs. It is being investigated in close coordination with the public prosecutor’s office. The police took pictures of the fan meeting when the lyrics were sung to preserve evidence. These are now being evaluated.