Germany vs Netherlands Called Off + Stadium Evacuated

Doff

Just seen a few people sharing this on Twitter from different sources, nothing concrete as of yet.

Anything heard anything on this?

Patser

Sky reporting it. Security alert.

http://www.skysports.com/football/live-blog

Red Kev

It's on www.kicker.de so I'd say its true.

Probably a false alarm or someone taking the plss but they can't take any risks.

NIMAN

BBC reporting it on their sports website.

Agent Coulson

BBC

Germany's friendly with the Netherlands on Tuesday has been called off, report Hannover Police.
The Hannover Stadium, hosting the match, started to be evacuated less then two hours before kick-off.
More follows.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/34849263

Iang87

BBC reporting the same now. Worrying stuff

Harry Palmr

Tedious, some wanker with nothing better to do.

Patser

Harry Palmr wrote: »

Tedious, some wanker with nothing better to do.

Hopefully that's all it is, and hopefully he's found and brought to a Paris hospital to see how humorous it all is.

Harry Palmr

Well I'm assuming its a threat made on twatter or other anti-social media rather than anything that could be verified.

AllGunsBlazing

Going to be like this for a while, I'm afraid. Any implied threat will likely cause games to postponed or abandoned.

homerjay2005

Harry Palmr wrote: »

Tedious, some wanker with nothing better to do.

you will probably see some local disgruntled people with some worthless agenda will be at fault here as opposed to an organised approach as happened on Friday.

Caovyn Lineah

Different sources saying that a suspicious person was outside the stadium and another saying a suspicious package was found inside the stadium. Angela Merkel was meant to attend.

Red Kev

Harry Palmr wrote: »

Tedious, some wanker with nothing better to do.

If true, they're going to get some kick up the hole from the German justice system. It won't be the slap on the wrist that you'd get here.

GLaDOS

Hoping it was just a threat. Have to feel for the German team after what happened Friday and then this.

BoJack Horseman

I assume the German security service have some solid intel on any threat?

Would a game be called off just for a random telephoned bomb threat?

*edit.... just seeing now, suspect device found.

Agent Coulson

Truck bomb reported on off the ball

RobertKK

Agent Coulson wrote: »

Truck bomb reported on off the ball

Yeah a truck bomb.

Sport is the new target for terrorists.

Collie D

Jesus...had assumed it was a hoax and they were playing better safe than sorry

GLaDOS

Fúcking scum. Thank god the German's got it before anyone else was hurt.

Agent Coulson

Fcuk Bomb disguised as an emergency vehicle

Stheno

Concert in Hanover also called off

blueser

https://twitter.com/Jeroen_Grueter/status/666695058255650816?ref_src=twsrc^tfw

Police holding a man at gunpoint in Hannover.

redzerdrog

Any reason the spain and Belgium game is cancelled?

flas

Was on the news the police chief in Hannover said in a statement they had concrete evidence that Hannover was a target tonight,don't know how true but he would be the man to know

Agent Coulson

redzerdrog wrote: »

Any reason the spain and Belgium game is cancelled?

Credible threat was what I read earlier and it seems a lot of these headcases are coming from or heading to Belgium.

Saipanne

The most important thing to remember is that this has nothing to do with religion.

NomadicGray

"BREAKING: Hanover chief of police: "There was a device intended to be detonated inside the stadium." #GERNED"

Harry Palmr

An ambulance parked at a high profile game and no one checking anything or having a secure zone around the stadium? Are they all asleep?

CSF

Saipanne wrote: »

The most important thing to remember is that this has nothing to do with religion.

It has everything to do with religion but this really isn't the place for such a discussion. This is definitely more about the what than the why.

So scary that this spate of incidents is happening, is this the beginning of the future or can this be dealt with effectively?

CSF

Harry Palmr wrote: »

An ambulance parked at a high profile game and no one checking anything or having a secure zone around the stadium? Are they all asleep?

Well you'd imagine them checking it was how it was found. Obviously, we're not privy to what happened and how.

NomadicGray

Harry Palmr wrote: »

An ambulance parked at a high profile game and no one checking anything or having a secure zone around the stadium? Are they all asleep?

You know this thread exists because they found it, right?

Harry Palmr

Ah you know what I mean, I doubt anything was allowed inside the boundary of the Wembley Stadium complex since yesterday.

Nailz

Harry Palmr wrote: »

An ambulance parked at a high profile game and no one checking anything or having a secure zone around the stadium? Are they all asleep?

Clearly not, because they found it...

Edit: Fair enough, but I think they did alright, considering they still appeared to have saved many people's lives.

Saipanne

CSF wrote: »

It has everything to do with religion but this really isn't the place for such a discussion. This is definitely more about the what than the why.

So scary that this spate of incidents is happening, is this the beginning of the future or can this be dealt with effectively?

Sarcasm.

NomadicGray

The whole ambulance thing seems to be in contention, but it seems there was definitely something that was planned to go off inside the stadium

madcabbage

Jesus this will be a game changer for the Euros or sport across Europe. What a bunch of c##ts! :mad:

Knex*

https://twitter.com/dw_sports/status/666698740108009472

Truck filled with explosives apparently found. If this is true, it is god damn frightening.

Lovely Bloke

fúcking cúnts attacking our sport.

fúck off.

cúnts

JustTheOne

madcabbage wrote: »

Jesus this will be a game changer for the Euros or sport across Europe. What a bunch of c##ts! :mad:

Said this the other day.

Premier league games will be a nightmare for security and paranoid players now.

madcabbage

JustTheOne wrote: »

Said this the other day.

Premier league games will be a nightmare for security and paranoid players now.

Whatever about Friday, this definitely is the nail in the coffin for going to the euros. Things only gonna get worse it would appear.

hmmm

There's no confirmation of *anything* - just lots of people on twitter retweeting a single dodgy source

homerjay2005

Harry Palmr wrote: »

An ambulance parked at a high profile game and no one checking anything or having a secure zone around the stadium? Are they all asleep?

seen as they found it, obviously not.

Lovely Bloke

hmmm wrote: »

There's no confirmation of *anything* - just lots of people on twitter retweeting a single dodgy source

Honigstein isn't a "dodgy source"

https://twitter.com/honigstein/status/666696660697894917

Dirty Dingus McGee

CSF wrote: »

It has everything to do with religion but this really isn't the place for such a discussion. This is definitely more about the what than the why.

So scary that this spate of incidents is happening, is this the beginning of the future or can this be dealt with effectively?

Sadly this is the future I suspect.

Being a terrorist (as long as your not afraid of being caught) is piss easy.I'm amazed there haven't been more terrorist threats over the last 10 years or so.

Knex*

German officials were saying everything would be done to secure the stadium. They had over 72 hours to prepare for this. Police with machine guns all around the stadium, all on high alert, and now one hour before the game they have to cancel it.

This is one game, a matter of days after the Paris attacks. How the hell are they going to secure every stadium every weekend in Germany, France and the UK, let alone prepare for the Euros.

Berserker

JustTheOne wrote: »

Said this the other day.

Premier league games will be a nightmare for security and paranoid players now.

Makes you think twice doesn't it. I travel across to England regularly, going over this weekend and it makes me think twice. I'll still go but I'll be more alert when I am at the stadium or in the pubs near it.

Saipanne

hmmm wrote: »

There's no confirmation of *anything* - just lots of people on twitter retweeting a single dodgy source

Pfff, people were saying the same shït on Friday night.

Dirty Dingus McGee

Baldy Conscience wrote: »

fúcking cúnts attacking our sport.

fúck off.

cúnts

The sport isn't under attack just the people who attend.Sporting events of any kind are probably the largest gathering of individuals that take place across Europe and therefore provide maximum possible death toll.Large gatherings of any kind are at risk.

hmmm

Baldy Conscience wrote: »

Honigstein isn't a "dodgy source"

He's said there were plans. There is no confirmation of any "ambulance full of explosives" or anything else. Maybe we could just wait for confirmation before running around waving our hands like 4 year old girls.

Knex*

Volker Kluwe, who is the Police Chief in Hannover, was the guy who reported that they had concrete evidence that someone wanted to set off an explosive device in the stadium, going by all the reports/reddit/twitter.

****

wonga77

Dirty Dingus McGee wrote: »

Sadly this is the future I suspect.

Being a terrorist (as long as your not afraid of being caught) is piss easy.I'm amazed there haven't been more terrorist threats over the last 10 years or so.

Its especially piss easy if your not afraid to die, which the most of these nutters are not afraid of...