The prime minister was insulted by the fans with the poster. The association distances itself, but also shows understanding.
After the fans of FC Erzgebirge Aue showed a poster against Prime Minister Michael Kretschmer (CDU) at the home game on Sunday, the club has now made a statement.
In the statement published on Monday it says “that from the point of view of the club, any banners with political content do not belong in a football stadium.” The association sees itself as a politically neutral institution where “all people, regardless of their political attitude, are welcome and support our team together.” Banners with insulting content against individual persons are unacceptable despite “all the understandable annoyance of the fans about the planned 2G regulation”, according to the FCE in the statement. The association therefore distances itself from the content of such posters.
It is so incredibly shameful for our country. #Auepic.twitter.com/xsNepy5CHC
– Alexander Dierks (@AlexDierksMdL) November 7, 2021
In addition, the statement announced that the FCE wants to work out how such banners could get into the stadium. An exchange with the fans is also planned so that there are no further incidents of this kind in the future.
In addition to the slanderous poster against Kretschmer, the violet fans demanded the end of all corona measures on another poster. At the home game against 1. FC Heidenheim on Sunday, almost the entire game hung over a banner that read: “Freedom is non-negotiable – end corona measures. Now!” at the fence of the fan curve. In addition, the song “Freiheit” by Marius Müller Westernhagen was played over the stadium loudspeakers and the stadium announcer Mario Dörfler expressed that he hopes that all fans will be able to meet again at the next home game. Where his emphasis was on “all”. It was the Auer’s last home game where the 3G rule still applied. (Luka)