Bayer Leverkusen: Amiri and Tah to Racism incident from Union

Bayer Leverkusen has not returned to a 1-1 at the start of the new Bundesliga season against Union Berlin. There was still an excitement: the fans of the Iron harvested with whistles against two players of the Werkself for indignation.

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The two nationalists Nadiem Amiri and Jonathan Tah were the target of the wrath of Union trailers. Background was an incident from last January.

At that time, Amiri and defender Florian Hübner agreed after the latter had expressed a supposedly racist remark. Accordingly, Hübner titled the midfielder as Fuck Afghans. Tah had then expressed sharp criticism of the Berlin in the interview after the game.

The DFB examined the case, but could not detect proof of the racist utterance. Hübner said to have insulted the Leverkusen in this way. Amiri stated that another word election was possible.

After over half a year, Tah and Amiri therefore harvested at the old forester with each ball contact whistle. The Berlin fans were criticized in the social media strong for their appearance during the game.

Union President Zingler defends fans

Union President Dirk Zingler defended the trailbook of his club in the half-time break. The boys and girls standing here, whistling and that's good right, he said at SKY and answered the question of the reasons for the desert behavior of the fans: You have to ask the questions that pipes.

Also, Tah responded after closing whistle: This confirms me in what I said then, but I only focused on football today.

But not only the whistling concert against Amiri and Tah caused a stir. A banner in the stadium also hit high waves. On the poster was read: Stop the restrictions - full stages, full life.

The criticism of the Corona measures of the DFB and the DFL also exempted the network, some Union trailers distanced them from the saying. Due to a good hygiene concept of the Ironed were 50 percent of the maximum stadium capacity, which corresponds to around 11,000 spectators.

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