Friday, April 1, 2011

Bump test: Man put Borussia Dortmund in bomb fear

It will be nothing more to see if they make 80,000 fans on Saturday on the way to the stadium of Borussia Dortmund. And yet so many of the visitors will probably have a sinking feeling on the way to the arena. For shortly before the Bundesliga match against Hannover 96 Head of the Table, the Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA) at the stadium three "suspicious explosive objects found and rendered harmless", as announced on Thursday.

In the morning the phone rang from Hans-Joachim Watzke, Dortmund's managing director. What he heard, took his first language. He was told how an anonymous note, the BKA was startled. The informant had approached via e-mail to the German embassy in Pakistan capital Islamabad. He warned of two "allegedly planned by a group of staged attacks in Germany." But he quickly became suspicious of the security officials.

First, because he has extensive knowledge in the construction of so-called "unconventional explosive and incendiary devices" possessed, so home-made bombs. Second, because as indicated, was that he had assisted in the procurement of the necessary objects and substances. The whole thing was a bluff: It quickly became apparent that the supposed tipster himself was the perpetrator.

There have been numerous indications that the "attack scenarios described by the informant could be constructed and may be the starting point for the beginning of a blackmail attempt," said the BKA. A linguistic analysis of the e-mails showed a high correlation with other mails that were associated with an extortion case from the year 2010.

A suspect should be confirmed by further investigations. On Tuesday, the officials were again in contact with the suspect, who was already aware of them. When he spoke of a planned attack in the Dortmund stadium, attacked the policemen. It should be, for the suspect to the Daily Soccer Buzz "information to the 25-year-old Alexander K., a German student, who is described as unremarkable.

He was arrested in a Cologne hotel. In initial questioning, he admitted being behind the notes to the German Embassy and invented the planned terrorist attacks have. At the same time he reported three bombs, which he created near the Dortmund Arena. In addition, there are other homemade bombs, which he kept in the family home in Krefeld, he said.

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