Hopp draws prosecution against BVB

Hoffenheim's long-standing patron Dietmar Hopp has withdrawn three criminal applications in his continuous dispute with football fans of Borussia Dortmund. This confirmed the club.

The district court Sinsheim had sentenced the BVB followers to 70 daily rates in January 2019. Because appeal was filed, the case since then at the district court Heidelberg. First, the "kicker" had reported on the process that the club did not want to comment on.

Hopp, which is at the TSG majority owner, has been in Clinch with Borussia fans for many years, which had regularly insulted him on spelling ribbons and speakers in games between both clubs. At the District Court Sinsheim, there were always procedures, which were partially adjusted against monetary payments. The lawyers of the BVB fans argued that offensive songs in football stadiums are customary and accepted as part of the fan culture.

The 81-year-old Hopp is a enemy picture in many fan trips, since he helped his home club 2008 to climb in the professional football. With Dortmund, the aversions escalated for the first time in the first duel, as a crosshair poster with the counterfei Hopps and the words "Hasta la Vista, Hopp!" to see in the stadium.

Ten years later, the crosshair poster was to be seen again when meeting both clubs. Then the DFB Dietmars Court imposed a two-year barrier for Dortmund fans in Hoffenheim in February 2020. However, this punishment had hardly worked out through the Corona Pandemic and the associated ghost games.