📸 Protest against stadium sanctions: BVB fans pen an open letter

"The stadiums are safe"—with this headline on the following XXL letter, BVB fans protested ahead of the DFB Cup match against Bayer Leverkusen.

The supporters unfurled a giant letter addressed to the Conference of Interior Ministers.

"Please take note that populist demands without any factual basis are to be refrained from. The statistics produced by your own offices tell a very different story." This is just one sentence from the XXL letter.

Once again, the XXL protest was followed by silence. In the first 12 minutes, fan support was missing both in Dortmund and at the second cup match between Leipzig and Magdeburg.

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