DFB professional Henrichs attacked
Rose wants arrests after hate messages
04/07/2023, 4:25 p.m
After winning the DFB Cup quarter-finals, German international Benjamin Henrichs was racially insulted. His trainer in Leipzig, Marco Rose, is therefore calling for clear signals against such hate messages. And make a few suggestions.
RB Leipzig coach Marco Rose has sharply condemned the racist insults and hate messages against his player Benjamin Henrichs on social networks. “It feels like a legal vacuum. Unfortunately, you have to say that. Anonymous, cowardly, from the living room, from the bedroom, from the toilet, no idea where the comrades are always sitting and just letting go of slogans,” said Rose in front of the Bundesliga duel with Hertha BSC on Saturday (6.30 p.m. / Sky and in the live ticker on ntv.de).
“I would just take people like that and put a few days aside so they can think,” Rose said. Many people might “not even know what triggers them”, but they have the feeling that “in the legal vacuum of the Internet, they can possibly get away with anything”. Rose’s fear, however, is that it will become an issue, “but two days later it’s forgotten. Like so many things when it comes to fundamentals”.
He had the impression that “more draconian penalties should be imposed,” emphasized the RB coach, “that the state should also think about it by taking such comrades out of circulation for a few days” and “a locked away for a few days, then one or the other would possibly be encouraged to think about it and to behave like a normal, social person”.
Rose welcomed the fact that Henrichs had made the comments public after the semi-finals in the DFB Cup against Borussia Dortmund (2-0) that the defender “of course had our full support”. It is “very important that you keep setting signs there and that you stand up against racism and also against this hatred on the internet,” said Rose. Henrichs had made public messages on the TikTok platform in which he and his family were insulted and racist.