“Treated like fair game”: Vienna police prevent escalation after football match

According to media reports, there were verbal and physical attacks on Tuesday during a game in the Regionalliga Ost between Mauerwerk and Wiener Sport-Club. The police confirmed the operation in Simmering, but there were no criminal offenses, the police said in response to an APA inquiry.

According to the police, after the match was lost 3-2, some players and stewards from FC Mauerwerk blocked the way to the changing room for the players from the Wiener Sport-Club and insulted them, which is why the police were called. Police officers from the Simmering city police command as well as members of the emergency unit and the Vienna operational unit then accompanied the Hernals players to their changing room and then out of the stadium. “Some of the recalcitrant people present were warned,” said a police spokesman. No one was injured.

Sports club section leader and vice president David Krapf-Günther expressed his shock in the “Kronen Zeitung”: “The scenes that took place there were unbelievable – we were treated like fair game. I have never experienced anything like that before.” And he continued: “For a long time we weren’t sure whether we would get home safely – thank God the police reacted quickly and well.”