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Terror Attack on German BVB Soccer Club: Financial Crime

posted by n1 on Monday April 24 2017, @06:06AM   Printer-friendly
from the capitalism-religion dept.

Soylentbob writes:

On April 12th, a terror-attack against the team of one of the major German soccer clubs, BVB, was reported by several news agencies. The attack was carried out with three bombs, enclosed by metal bolts for maximum damage. Luckily, only one player was injured at his hand. Some clumsy letters found at the scene pointed to an Islamic background, another equally clumsy pamphlet pointed to the left-wing, but due to the bad spelling and grammar was immediately suspected to be a false flag, potentially set by some right-wing extremist.

As evident by the links above, the media happily picked up the Islamic theme; the German right-wing party AfD (Alternative für Deutschland, alternative for Germany) also happily embraced the opportunity.

Turns out, the actual background seems to be a completely different one, neither political nor religious: The BVB is in the stock market. The perpetrator bought "put" options and tried to kill as many team-members as possible to make a fortune when the stocks would plummet.

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  • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 24 2017, @11:01AM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 24 2017, @11:01AM (#498769)

    look the man who found the universally accepted definition of terrorism.
    Why hello sir, the UN and all the world's lawyers were wondering when you're returning from your coffee break.

    Here's another act of violence, meant to sway the masses into acting in some way that somebody wants them too:
    https://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/18/world/middleeast/us-airstrike-syrian-troops-isis-russia.html?_r=0 [nytimes.com]

    would you like to report this terror attack?

    on the off chance that you're not some american idiot just browse the news keeping your definition in mind and see what else matches ...

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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by bradley13 on Monday April 24 2017, @12:59PM (1 child)

    by bradley13 (3053) on Monday April 24 2017, @12:59PM (#498805) Homepage Journal

    Well, yes. A foreign organization, bombing people inside of another country, without any sort of permission from the local government? Yes, I'd say that meets a fair definition of the word "terrorism". That's what Hezbollah does, for example.

    The fact that the organization is the US government? Still terrorism.

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    Everyone is somebody else's weirdo.

    • (Score: 2) by bob_super on Monday April 24 2017, @11:47PM

      by bob_super (1357) on Monday April 24 2017, @11:47PM (#499094)

      Technically, bombing someone's military facilities is an Act Of War.
      If you hadn't declared war beforehand, that might also qualify as a War Crime...

      This wasn't technically aimed indiscriminately at innocent civilians.