Ice hockey star shares message
Children threatened with death by national team captain
January 8, 2024, 10:27 p.m
The Kölner Haie lost 4:5 in the German Ice Hockey League at ERC Ingolstadt. Cologne’s Moritz Müller flies off the ice early – and then receives terrible news. His children are threatened with death. It is not the first time that DEL actors have experienced such violence.
Insinuations of murder against the children of national team captain Moritz Müller have left the ice hockey defender and the Cologne Sharks horrified. “We are stunned and shocked at how people are able to make such threats towards other people,” the sharks said.
“We are in close communication with our captain and assure him of all support. Together with the authorities, the aim is now to determine who is responsible for this disgusting action and to examine the criminal consequences,” the eight-time German champion continued.
The 37-year-old Sharks captain made the case public on Instagram on Sunday. His post included a comment from an Instagram user on a family photo of Müller. The perpetrator first posted a knife and a drop of red blood and then wrote on the photo of Müller with his three children: “I would kill these worms for such a terrible game of yours.” Müller commented on his own post in his Instagram story with the sentence: “No matter what, something like that just doesn’t work.”
The post was preceded by the Haie’s 4:5 defeat in the German Ice Hockey League at ERC Ingolstadt, in which Müller received a game misconduct penalty after just 70 seconds and was therefore excluded for the rest of the game.
In the DEL in particular, clubs have been pointing out online hate speech for some time. At the end of 2023, the Düsseldorfer EG took action against a Facebook user who had called for a “storm on the office” in view of the disappointing season so far. At the beginning of November 2023, Christian Hommel also resigned as sports director of the Iserlohn Roosters after his family was repeatedly threatened.