Violence in the stadiums

“The sports field serves as an outlet for aggression”

The police have to intervene repeatedly.(Bild: GEPA)

Within 16 days, there have been three serious riots on Vienna's soccer pitches, always involving hatred and violence. The "Krone" shows the "scandal file" and asks sports sociologist Otmar Weiß from the University of Vienna what the reasons are for the increasingly frequent derailments on the sports fields. 

Vienna, soccer stadium scene, September 2024 - violence, hatred and physical aberrations as far as the eye can see. The scandalous acts of the past 16 days ...