German football must shoulder police costs for high-risk games, court rules

by Oliver Trust

BERLIN, Jan. 14 (Xinhua) -- German professional football must bear part of the additional police costs for so-called high-risk games, the country's Federal Constitutional Court ruled Tuesday. The decision concludes a decade-long legal dispute between the federal state of Bremen and the German Football League (DFL).

Despite the ruling, each of Germany's 16 federal states can decide independ