‘Clubs facing security bill at high-risk games’

BERLIN: Bundesliga football clubs can be requested to pay for police deployments at high-risk matches, a German court ruled on Friday, to the dismay of the league.Ruling on a case brought by the German Football League (DFL) against Bremen police, the federal administrative court in Leipzig found that it was legitimate to charge a fee “for special police deployment at high-risk events of a commercial nature”. The court did not rule however on the specific case of Bremen. Rather, it sent the affair back to a local court in the northern German city.Bremen authorities welcomed the ruling, with the official in charge of interior affairs, Ulrich Maeurer, calling it a “historic decision”. The league had filed the lawsuit against Bremen police after they sent a bill to the DFL for a massive deployment during a derby match between Werder Bremen and Hamburg in April 2015.

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