Six hooded men attacked a 15-year-old boy for wearing a Magdeburg shirt

A fifteen-year-old minor was attacked by six hooded men in the city of Hallein eastern Germany, for wearing T-shirts of Magdeburga club where the local team, Hallescher, maintains a regional rivalry.

The events took place on Tuesday afternoon, when the young man was on an excursion with his class to the Planetarium of the city and, during the break, he was suddenly attacked after they observed that he was wearing a T-shirt from the team of the state capital of Saxony-Anhalt.

A spokesman for the Halle police confirmed to the German newspaper ‘Bild’ that from the statements of the attackers “it is clear that his Magdeburg shirt was the cause of the brutal attack” and that “they wounded the victim in the face because why.” the student had to be hospitalized.

The intense rivalry that exists between both clubs, one from the second division and the other from the fourth division of German football, has left other episodes of violence. On October 2, 2016, a 25-year-old Magdeburg fan boarded a regional train with three other Magdeburg fans in Haldensleben, a city in the same state, after a match against Kiel.

He got into one car and his three friends in another and, returning from a match with Fortuna Cologne, there was a group of Halle fans, mostly ultras. After three hundred meters, the young man fell from the moving train and, although according to the police version, he opened the door himself, it is not clear if he was pushed or if he jumped in panic, and the fan died almost two. week later The culprit was never found.

The attack took place less than a month after one suffered, precisely in a match played against Magdeburg itself, by Nuremberg player Niklas-Wilson Sommer, who was attacked by radicals from his team for published a photo in which he posed with a Bayern. Munich shirt.