Overview

• On July 28, Hamburg police’s SOKO Rutsche deployed around 100 officers to conduct simultaneous searches at 19 properties in Hamburg, Schleswig-Holstein and Lower Saxony.
• Investigators identified 22 suspects from HSV’s ultras and hooligan scene through analysis of video and photographic evidence tied to the January Reeperbahn attack.
• No detentions were made during the raids as none met the legal criteria for pretrial custody, though all remain under investigation on charges of dangerous bodily harm and breach of the peace.
• The Hamburg Landeskriminalamt has recommended imposing stadium bans on the 22 individuals to bar them from attending future matches.
• Hamburger SV has formally launched its own stadium-ban proceedings against the suspects and continues close coordination with law enforcement on the ongoing case.