Overview
- Stuttgart prosecutors broadened their investigation in late January to include DTB president Alfons Hölzl and sport director Thomas Gutekunst.
- Authorities say nine current and former functionaries are being investigated on suspicions of intentional bodily harm and coercion by omission in multiple cases, some allegedly attempted.
- The DTB said law firm Redeker Sellner Dahs reviewed the initiation order and concluded it did not substantiate criminal liability for the named officials.
- The federation reported it has not yet received access to the case file, has requested it, and plans to respond to prosecutors after review.
- Separate administrative fine proceedings are pending against the DTB and the regional body STB, following athletes’ reports of systemic physical and mental abuse at training centers in Stuttgart and Mannheim.