Dortmund Team bus involved in explosion (One Injured)

TheCitizen

Brendan Flowers wrote: »

More to the point we need to take the things people like you post with a very large pinch of salt.

Its also worth informing you that police are actually investigating a link to Islamic extremists http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-39575503

Thats the main concern I see with situations like this if they happen again in the future. Authorities cannot control the situation when you have people who dont have a clue posting their own facts online. These "facts" spread (like the false information last night that it was a firework) and then you have the risk of people in the region being caught up in further attacks due to mis-information.

It might seem like an overreaction from me but I just dont understand why some people are so determined to be official sources of information when things like that happen. Leave it to the expects.

Is that what it's about? Some amount of delusion going on there, we had posters declaring "it's only a firecracker, no worse than when West ham fans attacked a bus a while back etc.".

Is that sort of deluded gibberish a relatively new thing, even the title of this thread was changed to (maybe just a firecracker) at one point. It has changed again since. Pathetic delusion.

Lord TSC

I changed the title originally because a lot of the initial coverage was saying it was only a firecracker.

I changed it again when it became clear from multiple sources that it wasn't.

The sad reality of life right now is that when explosions happen, there'll be people who want to hope desperately it wasn't a terrorist attack, and there'll be people who will jump immediately to presuming it was one. It's difficult in the initial moments to get clarity and accurate information, and until it became more apparent it was an terrorist attack, I did not want people coming on boards.ie and thinking the entire bus had been blown up or something. Until that information was more public, I altered the topic to play it somewhat safer.

eagle eye

TheCitizen wrote: »

Is that what it's about? Some amount of delusion going on there, we had posters declaring "it's only a firecracker, no worse than when West ham fans attacked a bus a while back etc.".

Is that sort of deluded gibberish a relatively new thing, even the title of this thread was changed to (maybe just a firecracker) at one point. It has changed again since. Pathetic delusion.

I talked to a few people who had seen what happened on Sky News and everyone of them said it didn't look that serious.

I still haven't seen it myself but if the people I know were saying that then it must not have looked too bad at all. It doesn't mean it wasn't but somehow it came across on live tv as pretty tame it seems.

Trigger

citytillidie wrote: »

Best was in AH where people were using it to point score with Heysel :o

One person did. One who seems to be an angry little man that has an agenda against the whole of football going by his posting history in the SF.

eagle eye

Lord TSC wrote: »

I changed the title originally because a lot of the initial coverage was saying it was only a firecracker.

I changed it again when it became clear from multiple sources that it wasn't.

The sad reality of life right now is that when explosions happen, there'll be people who want to hope desperately it wasn't a terrorist attack, and there'll be people who will jump immediately to presuming it was one. It's difficult in the initial moments to get clarity and accurate information, and until it became more apparent it was an terrorist attack, I did not want people coming on boards.ie and thinking the entire bus had been blown up or something. Until that information was more public, I altered the topic to play it somewhat safer.

As I just posted it didn't seem that serious from people I was talking to. I think you did the right thing, common sense thing to do.

Irishmale0399

Sky Sports News Germany (on Astra 19,2 free view) reporting that the State Federal Prosecutor's Office have taken over investigations. This generally means that its serious and an national security issue

Press confernence at 14:00 local time.

http://www.sky.de/sky-sport-news/champions-league/bvb-anschlag-139786

Skysports Germany Live stream: http://www.sky.de/sky-sport-news/livestream-120317 You may need a German IP..

Gavlor

citytillidie wrote: »

Best was in AH where people were using it to point score with Heysel :o

I saw that..... and we think the soccer forum is bad!!

Lovely Bloke

astradave wrote: »

One person did. One who seems to be an angry little man that has an agenda against the whole of football going by his posting history in the SF.

gway with your truth will you, sure that doesn't suit the agenda at all at all.

"people".

NomadicGray

Story now is bombs were equipped with nails or metal pieces, one piece even stuck in a headrest on the bus

Irishmale0399

Wolfgang de Boer (BVB Goalkeeping Coach) has just stated to the press that players will have to decide themselves if they want to play tonight.

http://www.rp-online.de/sport/fussball/borussia-dortmund/borussia-dortmund-profis-ist-es-laut-teddy-de-beer-freigestellt-zu-spielen-aid-1.6753278

TheTownie

Some quotes from the latest BBC article.

Prosecutors also said the three explosive devices contained metal pieces.

A spokeswoman for Germany's federal prosecutor, Frauke Koehler, said: "Two suspects from the Islamist spectrum have become the focus of our investigation. Both of their apartments were searched, and one of the two has been detained."

The blast radius of the attack was about 100m.

Ms Koehler said a piece of shrapnel had embedded itself in the headrest of one of the seats on the team bus.

Spain international Marc Bartra underwent an operation after breaking a bone in his wrist. No other players were hurt, but a police officer on a motorbike escorting the bus suffered trauma from the noise of the explosions.

Bartra gives the thumbs up on IG;

https://www.instagram.com/p/BSybpqoD5sU/

TheTownie

TheTownie wrote: »

Some quotes from the latest BBC article.

Bartra gives the thumbs up on IG;

https://www.instagram.com/p/BSybpqoD5sU/

The hair...looks like a post explosion cartoon character...

elefant

Deleted User wrote: »

The hair...looks like a post explosion cartoon character...

Really?

That's a perfectly normal hairdo even for your ordinary civilian, let alone a professional footballer.

elefant

elefant wrote: »

Really?

That's a perfectly normal hairdo even for your ordinary civilian, let alone a professional footballer.

It might be an age thing. None in my circle of friends would even try it!

PhilipsR

Its a disgrace that Dortmund had to play yesterday. I don't care if the schedule would have been thrown out. (Simply play it on Saturday and let the leagues figure the rest out). More important things in life than a football match being played over the mental welfare of the players involved in an ATTACK less than 24 hours before the replayed game. Scandalous.

gandalf

Just coming back to this. It looks like it was carried out by a lad trying to profit from a drop in the share values. Talk about Hans Gruber!

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-39664212

gucci

gandalf wrote: »

Just coming back to this. It looks like it was carried out by a lad trying to profit from a drop in the share values. Talk about Hans Gruber!

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-39664212

Exactly what I said to the lads at work when we heard it....unfortunately no body got it :pac::pac:

Back on topic....what an absolute idiotic plan