This is a sordid new story that agitates German women’s handball. This week, before facing Bietigheim in the league (20-32), the players from Metzingen, who play in the first division, discovered two hidden cameras in their locker room. As explained le media mirror, the police identified a person in the team’s immediate entourage.
The spokesman for the Reutlingen police headquarters said they found “evidence” on the suspect, who was immediately removed from the club. Training coach Ferenc Rott described a “disgusting act, simply shocking”, which moreover was “committed by a person of direct confidence”. He also said he was “impressed” by the solidarity of the players who agreed to play their last meeting.
“A criminal act”
The league’s governing body, the Handball Bundesliga Frauen, for its part condemned “in the strongest terms this reprehensible, criminal act” which “goes against all the values that we defend. The author faces a prison sentence of up to two years.
A week earlier, similar facts – produced last September – had been made public by the media Winsen indicator. The discovery of cameras, this time in the locker room of the Buchholz-Rosengarten players, had also led to the identification of a suspect. The investigation is not over.