Soccer match slogans spark arbitration proceedings.

Local athletic competition - Soccer match slogans spark arbitration proceedings.

As a result of reported racist chants during a halted Kreisliga game, the Kreisfachverband Fußball Salzland prompted a sports court case. "I learned about the event in Eggersdorf shortly after it occurred," said KFV President Helmut Lampe to the German Press Agency. "Consequently, we went ahead with the requisite actions for a sports court proceeding and also alerted the Fußballverband Sachsen-Anhalt."

Over the weekend, a criminal charge was filed due to presumptions of inciting hate, stated a police official. The police mentioned that the referee suspended the match between TSV Blau-Weiß Eggersdorf and Union 1861 Schönebeck, taking place in Bördeland-Eggersdorf south of Magdeburg, on Friday evening when the score was 7:0. As per the police account, a group of roughly ten individuals, backed by musical accompaniment, were the ones shouting the chant - specifically the melody of the classic party hit "L'amour toujours" by Gigi D'Agostino.

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