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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.
(Score: 3, Informative) by Soylentbob on Monday April 24 2017, @07:35AM
There were some nice comments on twitter about this story as well. I didn't want to put it into the story, since I believe the submission shouldn't be biased. (Probably it is nevertheless, but didn't want to push it further :-))
This small collection of comments I found on blog.fefe.de [blog.fefe.de], a popular, yet minimalistic, German blog:
After Dortmund: CDU demands new law to prohibit "Founding of capitalist association" [twitter.com]
(Hint: The attack happened in Dortmund, CDU is a conservative party)
Shutdown Business-Boot-Camps in German Universities! [twitter.com]
Did the Frankfurter stock market already dissociate themselves from the radical-capitalist attack on the BVB bus? [twitter.com]
Our efforts to integrate the stock-brokers in our society failed. [twitter.com] So sad.
Did any politician already demand the stock-markets to dissociate themselves from this attack? [twitter.com]
Obviously some more comments on how religiously / fanatically some individuals defend the ideas of capitalism.