The flag of LTTE was amongst forty paraded Saturday in Germany’s biggest stadium, the Westfalenstadion, before a football match between champions Borussia Dortmund and FC Nuremberg.

Over 30,000 people watched the parade, and 78,000 spectators watched the subsequent match which Borussia Dortmund won (2:0). The LTTE flag was carried by a member of the Tamil Youth Organisation (TYO) and three other Borussia fans, pro-LTTE media reports.

The European Union banned LTTE as a terrorist organization on 17 May 2006.