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Terror attack on German BVB soccer club: Financial crime

Accepted submission by Soylentbob at 2017-04-23 21:18:35 from the capitalism-religion dept.
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On April 12th, a terror-attack against the team of one of the major German soccer clubs, BVB [wikipedia.org], was reported by several [telegraph.co.uk] news [dailymail.co.uk] 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 [independent.co.uk] pointed to the left-wing, but due to the bad spelling and grammer 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 islamistic theme; the German right-wing party AfD (Alternative für Deutschland, alternative for Germany) also [twitter.com] happily embraced the opportunity.

Turns out, the actual background seems to be a completely different one [independent.co.uk], 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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