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Borussia Dortmund team bus attacked

Postby UFGN » Tue Apr 11, 2017 9:45 pm

Three explosions have hit a bus carrying the Borussia Dortmund football team to their home Champions League quarter-final match against Monaco.
In a press conference, the head of Dortmund police said it was a targeted attack on the team.
Spain international Marc Bartra was taken to hospital with an injury to his hand. No other players were hurt.
The first indications were that this was an "attack with serious explosives", Dortmund police said.


http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-39571776
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Re: Borussia Dortmund team bus attacked

Postby UFGN » Tue Apr 11, 2017 9:48 pm

Borussia Dortmund explosions: police find letter claiming responsibility for attack – live updates


https://www.theguardian.com/football/li ... t-leg-live

Police have revealed that they discovered a letter near the scene of the crime and are trying to authenticate it. They have not disclosed the contents of the letter.
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Re: Borussia Dortmund team bus attacked

Postby Sims » Sat Apr 15, 2017 10:15 am

Reports in Germany saying that there's serious doubt this was done by Islamic extremists, but a far left/right group
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Re: Borussia Dortmund team bus attacked

Postby Sims » Fri Apr 21, 2017 8:16 am

Ended up being a dual German/Russian bloke who wanted to crash the teams stock prices with the explosion

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Re: Borussia Dortmund team bus attacked

Postby Zedie » Fri Apr 21, 2017 8:40 am

Sims wrote:Ended up being a dual German/Russian bloke who wanted to crash the teams stock prices with the explosion

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