Saturday, April 2, 2011

Planned stops: Dortmund strengthened security measures against 96

Friday at noon to remember the remains of the flutter tape, cordoned off with police the zone next to the Dortmund stadium, had nothing planned for the attacks. On Thursday morning, 3 clock, here are three explosive devices were secured. A blackmailer had threatened a assassination attempt on the visitors of the Bundesliga match between Borussia Dortmund and table top third Hannover 96 on Saturday.

A few meters from the site is still a transfer carriage of the television station N24 in a parking lot - a holdover from the previous day. Otherwise, life goes back to its course in the shadow of the mighty arena. A rejection of the lot was "never a discussion point," said BVB president Reinhard Rauball, who also is also President of the League Association DFL.

He said Rauball, will on Saturday, "without fear" going to the stadium: "I hope that the community of rational, not tainted by a misguided joy." However, many fans had reacted in shock. In the office of the association and the Dortmund fan project had received numerous calls from concerned supporters.

"Here was the phones have not stopped," said Borussia press officer Josef Schneck, who was first to suffer under the meager flow of information from the authorities. "Do not know everything Borussia Dortmund as the media," it said in a first press release of the club on Thursday afternoon, from 15.30 clock.

Only an hour later, after consultation with the Federal Criminal Police (BKA), clear could be given ". No danger of the game" Only after the situation calmed down at Wolf-Arnd Marewski. The social worker engaged for years in the "Dortmund fan project", an organization with which the followers can turn with problems.

"People were worried. I had even thought: Damn, now it has caught us, "said Marewski. Even at the 2006 World Cup, he had occasionally had a queasy feeling: "You imagine holding: What can happen with this crowd in and around the stadiums all" On Friday, the fear of the people was largely evaporated in Dortmund.

Probably due to the declarations of the association. "To enable the unchallenged visit all the fans, the BVB precautionary step up its security measures in consultation with the police now again", BVB director Hans-Joachim Watzke said. Already on Friday, the stadium was blocked off by security forces pass, could only employees of the association and the transfer carriage of television.

Undisturbed by the interim excitement were preparing for the pros in the game against Dortmund. The final training of the team of Juergen Klopp took place Friday afternoon at the training ground in Dortmund Brackel, twelve kilometers away from the stadium and to the exclusion of the public.

Not an unusual process, before important games of the club makes the always the case. The coach had on Thursday afternoon to learn of the foiled attack, three policemen came to Brackel. Klopp, who was already with the team on the field, had come to the edge, to inquire. When he heard that the alleged perpetrator had been taken and there was no danger, he continued the match preparation.

After all, the Borussia play on Saturday against Hanover, a direct pursuers, and Klopp fears for the operations of defender Neven Subotic and center fielder Jakub Blaszczykowski, who returned with injuries from the match travels.

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