Overview

• The bronze figure outside Essen’s Stadion an der Hafenstraße was found on October 3 with clear saw and angle‑grinder marks at the legs.
• Rot-Weiss Essen filed a criminal complaint the same day, and police confirmed receiving it Friday evening with an investigation underway.
• Club spokesman Henrik Lerch condemned the attempt to remove the monument honoring the football legend as a deeply troubling act.
• Helmut Rahn’s son Uwe said he hopes the case is solved and noted that repairing the damage will likely be complex and costly.
• The statue by sculptor Inka Uzoma was unveiled in 2004, exhibited in 2010, reinstalled at the current site in 2014, and stands on the square named Helmut-Rahn-Platz since 2018.