Overview

• Around 150 supporters traveled in three buses toward a Regionalliga match against Hertha BSC II when witnesses reported extensive graffiti at the Parforceheide service area.
• Autobahn police tracked the convoy and stopped one bus at the former Dreilinden service area, where roughly 50 people were checked.
• During the identity checks, several individuals attacked officers from a bus, and one officer was trapped in a door and taken to a hospital with severe injuries.
• Because the group appeared violent, highway officers requested reinforcements from Brandenburg and Berlin police before proceeding with the controls.
• Authorities opened investigations on suspicion of dangerous bodily harm, assault on enforcement officers, and a particularly serious breach of the peace, and the checked supporters were barred from the match and sent back to Thuringia.