DRESDEN, Germany (AP) \u2014 Police in the German city of Dresden have opened more than a dozen investigations into offenses, including causing \u201cdangerous bodily harm\u201d after large-scale disorder involving fans at a soccer game.<\/p>\n
Dozens of fans of Dynamo Dresden ran across the field toward supporters of Hertha Berlin during Saturday’s second-division game before being chased back by police. Dresden fans then burned a Hertha fan flag.<\/p>\n
The game was resumed after an interruption of nearly 20 minutes and Hertha won 1-0.<\/p>\n
Police said in a statement late Saturday that they were investigating offenses including dangerous bodily harm, breach of the peace and property damage. Police did not immediately confirm any injuries or arrests.<\/p>\n
Dynamo Dresden finance director Stephan Zimmermann offered an apology to \u201call uninvolved people who were caught up in these unnecessary acts\u201d and said the club had met with police.<\/p>\n
\u201cOur home games are known for a unique atmosphere. Pictures like we saw this evening are not acceptable and cause massive damage not only to our club but to soccer as a whole in Germany,\u201d Zimmermann said in a statement.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe and many other clubs have spent recent months advocating for fans’ interests and a safe stadium experience, and scenes like this are a heavy blow.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DRESDEN, Germany (AP) \u2014 Police in the German city of Dresden have opened more than a dozen investigations…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2362,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2340,2339,5,799,795,2586],"class_list":["post-2361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-germany","tag-dresden","tag-fan-violence-dresden-hertha-berlin","tag-germany","tag-package-100502-member-choice-sports-option","tag-product-30599-ap-sports-news-s-wire-only","tag-stephan-zimmermann"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2361\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}