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Bloody hell.
German police have detained a suspect with "Islamist links" following a bomb attack on the bus of the Borussia Dortmund football team.
Prosecutors also said one of the three explosive devices contained metal strips.
Two letters claiming the attack on Tuesday evening were being investigated, they said.
Prosecutors are treating the blasts as a terrorist attack but say the precise motive is unclear at present.
Chancellor Angela Merkel on Wednesday said the attack was "an appalling crime" and praised the fans of both teams for coming together.
Letter's demands
A spokeswoman for Germany's federal prosecutor, Frauke Koehler, said: "Two suspects from the Islamist spectrum have become the focus of our investigation. Both of their apartments were searched, and one of the two has been detained."
The blast radius of the attack was about 100m. Prosecutors said it was lucky the casualties were not worse.
Ms Koehler said a piece of shrapnel had embedded itself in the headrest of one of the seats on the team bus.
Prosecutors also said one of the three explosive devices contained metal strips.
Two letters claiming the attack on Tuesday evening were being investigated, they said.
Prosecutors are treating the blasts as a terrorist attack but say the precise motive is unclear at present.
Chancellor Angela Merkel on Wednesday said the attack was "an appalling crime" and praised the fans of both teams for coming together.
Letter's demands
A spokeswoman for Germany's federal prosecutor, Frauke Koehler, said: "Two suspects from the Islamist spectrum have become the focus of our investigation. Both of their apartments were searched, and one of the two has been detained."
The blast radius of the attack was about 100m. Prosecutors said it was lucky the casualties were not worse.
Ms Koehler said a piece of shrapnel had embedded itself in the headrest of one of the seats on the team bus.
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Borussia Dortmund bombs: 'Speculator' charged with bus attack
Police in Germany have charged a man suspected of being behind an attack on the Borussia Dortmund team bus.
Rather than having links to radical Islamism, he was a market trader hoping to make money if the price of shares in the team fell, prosecutors say. The 28-year-old, identified only as Sergej W, was staying in the team's hotel in a room overlooking the street where the explosion took place.
Two people needed medical help after three bombs exploded near the bus. Spanish footballer Marc Bartra underwent wrist surgery and a police officer was treated for shock. Following the attack on 11 April, Borussia Dortmund's Champions League match against Monaco was rescheduled a day later, which led Dortmund fans to open their doors to stranded away supporters.
Police were originally treating the blast as a terrorist attack after letters were found near the site of the attack indicating links to so-called Islamic State (IS). They arrested a 25-year-old Iraqi "with Islamist links" the day afterwards. However, the following week, investigators cast "significant doubt" on jihadist motivations being behind it. They said letters found at the scene may have been an attempt to trick people into thinking there was an Islamist motive.
In a statement on Friday (in German), the German federal prosecutor's office said the 28-year-old, who has German and Russian nationality, had been charged with attempted murder, setting off explosions and causing serious physical injury. He was arrested by the elite GSG 9 police unit early on Friday near Tübingen in Baden-Wuerttemberg in south-west Germany.
The suspect had allegedly bought options to short-sell 15,000 shares of stock - reportedly priced at €78,000 (£65,000; $83,600) - in Borussia Dortmund. He would have profited from falling share prices after the attack. He was staying at the team's L'Arrivée hotel in Dortmund on the day of the attack and had moved to a room on the top floor, overlooking the street where it took place, prosecutors say. The suspect placed the bet on 11 April using an IP address traced to the hotel, after taking out a loan for the money.
Investigators believe three explosive devices packed with metal pins were hidden in a hedge and set off as the bus passed. The bus was damaged about six miles from the Westfalenstadion - officially called Signal Iduna Park - in Dortmund about 90 minutes before kick-off. Pictures from the scene showed the bus's windows broken and tyres burst in the blasts. Fans at the 80,000-capacity Signal Iduna Park were told to stay there until it was safe to leave but were later evacuated safely.
Borussia Dortmund's stock did drop from €5.738 to a low of €5.421 after the attack. Having recovered slightly it slid again after the team was eliminated from the Champions League.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-39664212
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Hahhaahahaha fucking hell.
Borussia Dortmund bombs: 'Speculator' charged with bus attack
Police in Germany have charged a man suspected of being behind an attack on the Borussia Dortmund team bus.
Rather than having links to radical Islamism, he was a market trader hoping to make money if the price of shares in the team fell, prosecutors say. The 28-year-old, identified only as Sergej W, was staying in the team's hotel in a room overlooking the street where the explosion took place.
Two people needed medical help after three bombs exploded near the bus. Spanish footballer Marc Bartra underwent wrist surgery and a police officer was treated for shock. Following the attack on 11 April, Borussia Dortmund's Champions League match against Monaco was rescheduled a day later, which led Dortmund fans to open their doors to stranded away supporters.
Police were originally treating the blast as a terrorist attack after letters were found near the site of the attack indicating links to so-called Islamic State (IS). They arrested a 25-year-old Iraqi "with Islamist links" the day afterwards. However, the following week, investigators cast "significant doubt" on jihadist motivations being behind it. They said letters found at the scene may have been an attempt to trick people into thinking there was an Islamist motive.
In a statement on Friday (in German), the German federal prosecutor's office said the 28-year-old, who has German and Russian nationality, had been charged with attempted murder, setting off explosions and causing serious physical injury. He was arrested by the elite GSG 9 police unit early on Friday near Tübingen in Baden-Wuerttemberg in south-west Germany.
The suspect had allegedly bought options to short-sell 15,000 shares of stock - reportedly priced at €78,000 (£65,000; $83,600) - in Borussia Dortmund. He would have profited from falling share prices after the attack. He was staying at the team's L'Arrivée hotel in Dortmund on the day of the attack and had moved to a room on the top floor, overlooking the street where it took place, prosecutors say. The suspect placed the bet on 11 April using an IP address traced to the hotel, after taking out a loan for the money.
Investigators believe three explosive devices packed with metal pins were hidden in a hedge and set off as the bus passed. The bus was damaged about six miles from the Westfalenstadion - officially called Signal Iduna Park - in Dortmund about 90 minutes before kick-off. Pictures from the scene showed the bus's windows broken and tyres burst in the blasts. Fans at the 80,000-capacity Signal Iduna Park were told to stay there until it was safe to leave but were later evacuated safely.
Borussia Dortmund's stock did drop from €5.738 to a low of €5.421 after the attack. Having recovered slightly it slid again after the team was eliminated from the Champions League.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-39664212
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Hahhaahahaha fucking hell.
Slightly more than a buck. Most options are priced around 2% of the stock. So £65,000 allows him to effectively short sell £3.25m worth of stock. The stock dropped 5.5%. So he made doing the maths that's around £178k. Had he managed to kill some of the players, their stock could easily have slid over 50%, and he'd have made a couple of million.
Well, lots of people in the know did this prior to 9-11 and made literally billions.
or he just wasn't as tough minded as those tens of people who have yet to be broken (which makes you wonder who was doing the investigating)
Exactly. Wannabe playing at it.
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