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Scottish soccer club fans daub graffiti cursing murdered hostage Hersh Goldberg-Polin

2024-10-21

[IsraelTimes] Celtic fans defaced bleachers with ‘Fuck Hersh’ graffiti after losing 7-1 to Borussia Dortmund; an Israeli player left the team in March because of anti-Israel sentiment

Fans of a prominent Scottish soccer club vandalized the bleachers of their German hosts’ stadium three weeks ago, cursing Hersh Goldberg-Polin, an Israeli-American hostage who was executed by Hamas
Hamas

..not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,...
in Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
, Channel 12 news reported.

Posts on social media showed the railing at Borussia Dortmund’s Signal Iduna Park defaced with graffiti reading "Fuck Hersh" after Celtic’s 7-1 loss in the UEFA Champions League. The graffiti was likely a reaction to the overwhelming solidarity exhibited by German soccer fans with Israeli hostages in general and with Goldberg-Polin in particular, who was a fan of the Hapoel Jerusalem soccer team.

German club SV Werder Bremen commemorated Goldberg-Polin with a large banner in September after his body was recovered from Gaza alongside five other hostages. In July, while Goldberg-Polin was still alive in captivity, the team displayed a banner of him outside their stadium that read "Let Hersh Free."

Bayern Munich hosted hostage families at a game in November, and FC St. Pauli hosted former hostage Liam Or in March after he was released from captivity during a temporary truce in November.

Celtic fans are known for their anti-Israel sentiment, even though several Israeli players have played for the team in recent years. In March, Israeli forward Liel Abada left the team because of pressure from compatriots to cease playing for fans who regularly displayed banners reading "Free Paleostine" and "Victory to the resistance." While Celtic fans regularly use symbols of Paleostinian nationalism when cheering on their team, the fans of their rival, Rangers FC, often respond by waving Israeli flags.

Goldberg-Polin was kidnapped by forces of Evil from the Nova music festival near the Gaza border on October 7, 2023 ; terrorist fire left him without an arm. He was executed in captivity alongside five other hostages in August. Their bodies were found a few days later by Israeli forces, which led to an intensification of mass protests calling for a deal to release the remaining hostages.

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Europe

ISIS threatens to carry out terrorist attacks at the Champions League quarter-final matches

2024-04-10

Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.

ISIS is emblematic of the notion that somebody, somewhere is having a better time than you are.

And anyone can join the jihad without doing the work, just by recording the commitment to ISIS.

[Regnum] The Islamic State group has threatened to carry out terrorist attacks at the Champions League matches, which will take place on April 9 and 10. This was reported by the Spanish publication Marca.

“Through its media center, the group distributed a message threatening football stadiums in London, Paris and Madrid,” the publication notes.

Plans to hold quarter-final matches remain in force, as the country's Ministry of Internal Affairs already considers them high-risk events. Information about the threats was transferred to Real Madrid.

The government commission will hold an official meeting on April 9 on the issue of additional security measures, the publication says.

On April 9, meetings between London's Arsenal and Bayern Munich and Real Madrid's against Manchester City are scheduled. The next day, Parisian PSG will play against Barcelona, and Atletico Madrid will play against Borussia Dortmund.

Update from the Times of Israel at 9:40 a.m. ET:

Security beefed up around PSG-Barcelona soccer match after Islamic State threat

French police are tightening security around Gay Paree Saint-Germain’s (PSG) Parc des Princes stadium on Wednesday following a threat of attacks by Islamic State

...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems....
that adds to security worries ahead of the upcoming summer Olympics.

PSG play Barcelona later in a Champions League soccer quarterfinal to be viewed by millions around the world.

Spain and Britannia also doubled down this week around their respective Champions League quarter-finals on Tuesday and Wednesday after the resurgent Islamic State terror group urged attacks against host venues, including with drones.

At PSG’s Parc des Princes stadium on Wednesday, police are towing away parked cars and installing concrete blocks.

Islamic State has urged followers to recreate a November 2015 attack on the Stade de La Belle France stadium, featuring an image of the Parc des Princes stadium, according to Site Intelligence group, which tracks Islamic terrorist postings.

Another image seen by Site Intelligence urged gunnies to use drones to attack the stadiums.

Spain said it had deployed more than 2,000 officers to boost security in Madrid for the games there.

Islamic State’s Afghan branch, known as ISIS-K, has been particularly active in recent months. The group grabbed credit for a mass-fatality attack at a concert near Moscow last month, and also carried out twin bombings in Iran
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate ~~Jews~~ ~~Zionists~~ Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol...
that killed nearly 100 people earlier this year.

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German Sentenced to 14 Years for Dortmund Football Team Bus Bomb

2018-11-28

[An Nahar]

A German man who launched a shrapnel bomb attack on the team bus of football club Borussia Dortmund in April 2017 to make money on the club's shares diving was on Tuesday sentenced to 14 years in jail.

A court in Dortmund found Sergej Wenergold, 29, guilty of 28 counts of attempted murder after he detonated three explosive devices while the bus was en route to the stadium for a Champions League game last year.

After an 11-month trial, the trained electrician, who was born in Russia, was also found guilty of causing an explosion and two counts of causing serious injury after the blasts wounded Spanish defender Marc Bartra and a police officer.

Good.

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Europe

Germany arrests suspect in Dortmund team bus attack

2017-04-22

...and he is merely a greedy, evil man. So now we know.

[AlAhram] Police commandos on Friday nabbed
... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not...
a German-Russian suspect behind a kaboom on Borussia Dortmund's team bus, prosecutors said, indicating the motive was financial and not terror-related.

They said the man, identified only as 28-year-old Sergej W., was hoping to profit from a drop in the football team's share price as a result of the attack.

Three bombs went off in a hedge alongside the team bus on April 11, minutes after it left the squad's hotel heading for a Champions League quarter-final match at home against Monaco.

The blast shattered the bus windows, and Spanish international Marc Bartra, 26, was maimed, forcing him to undergo surgery for a broken wrist.

"The accused is suspected of having carried out the attack on the team bus of Borussia Dortmund on April 11," prosecutors said after the elite GSG 9 police unit arrested him around dawn in Tuebingen, south of Stuttgart in the state of Baden-Wurttemberg.

"He is charged with attempted murder, setting off kabooms and causing serious physical injury," they said in a statement.

He was staying in the same hotel as the team, with a view of the attack scene, and had bought so-called put options on the team's shares on the day of the attack, they said.

These 15,000 options could have been sold at a pre-determined price by June 17, with a sharp fall in the share price promising a high profit.

"A significant drop in the price could have been expected if, as a result of the attack, players had been seriously injured or even killed," the prosecutors said.

Sergej. W had allegedly taken out a loan on April 3 to pay for the put options and bought them online from the IP address of the Hotel L'Arrivee, where the team would be staying.

He had reserved the room in mid-March for the periods April 9-13 and 16-20 -- coinciding with the team's two scheduled matches against Monaco, though it was not yet clear at the time which one would be held in Dortmund.

He hoped to earn as much as 3.9 million euros ($4.2 million), the Bild newspaper reported.

The team's share price has fallen by about 5.5 percent on the Deutsche Boerse since the attack, and closed at 5.36 euros on Thursday.

An Iraqi man was taken into custody over a suspected Islamist link, but was cleared of involvement in the attack.

Similarly, a purported claim of responsibility stating a far-right motive sent to German media bore "contradictions and inconsistencies", prosecutors said, adding that there was "no indication that it was sent by the perpetrator".

The investigation has involved several hundred coppers.

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Europe

Major doubts about letters claiming Islamist motive for Dortmund attack: Media

2017-04-15

[AlAhram] German broadcaster ARD cited a report commissioned by Sherlocks as saying there were "significant doubts" that letters claiming responsibility for an attack on the bus of soccer team Borussia Dortmund were written by Islamists.

Three identical letters printed in German found near the scene of the incident in Dortmund had suggested a possible Islamist motive for the attack.

But they did get that ISIS commando commander, so that's something.

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Europe

Is Dortmund attacker still on the run? Police admit they have no evidence linking sole suspect to bus bombing but claim he WAS an ISIS commander

2017-04-14

[DailyMail] German police have admitted they have no evidence linking the sole suspect in the Borussia Dortmund football team bus bombing with the attack - but believe he was an ISIS commander while in his home country of Iraq.

A 26-year-old Iraqi, identified only as Abdul Baset al-O, was placed in durance vile
Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw!
yesterday in connection with the attack.

Chilling 'confession' letters found close to the scene of Tuesday's bombing, which injured Spanish international Marc Bartra, blamed German involvement in Syria - but made no mention of support for ISIS.

Now prosecutors have cast doubt over whether the suspect was responsible, meaning the real terrorist could still be on the lam.

However,
a hangover is the wrath of grapes...
they have detained him over allegations he led a terror cell of 10 fighters in Iraq, which aimed to 'prepare kidnappings, abductions, extortion and killings'. A German judge on Thursday approved an arrest warrant against him, the Federal Prosecutor's Office said in a statement.

The letters warned Angela Merkel
...current chancellor of Germany and the impetus behind Germany's remarkably ill-starred immigration program. Merkel used to be referred to by Germans as Mom...
to withdraw troops from Syria, it has emerged. Three 15 line 'confessions', written in German, were found near the scene, addressed the German Chancellor, with one stating: 'Your Tornadoes are still flying over the land of the Caliphate to murder Moslems.'
ISIS operatives do not usually claim responsibility in this way, and the terror group was not referenced in the letters.

Prosecutors said today that the arrested man crossed the border from Iraq into ~~The Sick Man of Europe~~ Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
in March 2015 and continued on in early 2016 to Germany 'where the suspect maintained contact with Isis members'.

It is the first time such confession letters have been left. Terror expert Peter Neumann, from King's College, London, told Bild: 'Three identical confessions were found at the scene of the crime. This has never happened before in Islamist attacks.'

Abdul Baset al-O was seized in the city of Wuppertal. Media reports said he had been on the radar of police and intelligence agencies for some time after intercepted telephone calls alerted authorities to his Jihadist leanings. It was suspected he had explosives or bomb parts in his apartment but nothing was found.

A second suspect is a 28-year-old German with Lebanese roots, named as Abdullah al-Z, who comes from the town of Fröndenberg.

His home was searched after a domestic spat involving his parents resulted in police being called. Once there they discovered an umbrella from the hotel where the Borussia Dortmund team had been quartered before the kaboom. But he was questioned and released and it is unclear what further role he may play in the investigation.

Puzzling to authorities is the technical know how that was required to build the three sophisticated pipe bombs used in the attack that spewed shrapnel over a 300 feet radius. The attacker or attackers knew how to detonate the devices at the exact time the bus was passing - and placed them out of view of the hotel's CCTV cameras. Experts said they could have been detonated with a phone or an electric garage door opener.

Morons-N-The-Hood: Armed police arrest three rappers with fake guns in a Lamborghini as they cruise Dortmund filming a music video hours after the bus bombing

[DailyMail]

The three rappers were filming a music video in a Lamborghini in Dortmund

Their fake guns were 'deceptively real-looking', Dortmund police said

Police said onlookers were concerned that some of the men had 'longer beards'

It came just a day after a bomb the Borussia Dortmund football team's bus

Dortmund's Bartra faces month out after bus bomb attack

[AlAhram] Borussia Dortmund's Spanish international defender Marc Bartra will be out for around four weeks after injuring his wrist in Tuesday's kaboom on the team's bus, coach Thomas Tuchel said.

"Marc would prefer to play again on Saturday, but he will need around four weeks," said Tuchel, whose side entertain Eintracht Frankfurt in the Bundesliga on Saturday.

Bartra, 26, underwent emergency surgery for a broken radius bone and to remove glass that became planted in his arm after the blasts shattered windows on the team's bus.

On Wednesday he said on Twitter that he was "doing much better" but he played no part in Dortmund's 3-2 defeat at home to Monaco in the first leg of their Champions League quarter-final.

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Dortmund bus bomb: German police detain suspected Islamist

2017-04-13

[RT] German police say that two people suspected of involvement in Tuesday’s bombing near the Borussia Dortmund team bus have an Islamist background. The federal public prosecutor also confirmed that the explosives used contained metal shards.

Police have searched the apartments of both suspects, one of whom has been placed in durance vile
Drop the rod and step away witcher hands up!
, the prosecutor confirmed Wednesday. Officials are attempting to secure an arrest warrant for the second suspect.

A spokesperson for the public prosecutor, Frauke Koehler, said shrapnel from the bombs used in the attack traveled more than 100 meters (330ft) and contained metal pins which had pierced a headrest of a bus seat.

The team bus was severely damaged in the blast, which police are treating as a terrorist attack "based on the facts of the crime," however the exact motive remains unclear, according to a police statement.

Three letters were found at the scene of the blast, the nature of which led Sherlocks to believe the attackers may have an Islamic background. Earlier reports from German media claimed one of the letters opened with: "In the name of Allah, the Gracious, the Merciful."

Police confirmed the letter calls for the withdrawal of German Tornado aircraft from Syria and the closure of the American airbase at Ramstein.

Another letter posted online, which also grabbed credit for the attack, came from a group with "left-wing holy warrior background" police said. An investigation into the post, however, cast "considerable doubts about the authenticity" of the claim.

Three bombs hidden behind a hedge went off near the Borussia Dortmund team bus on Tuesday evening as the team made its way to a Champions League quarter-final game against Monaco.

Dortmund’s center back Marc Bartra was the only person to suffer injuries in the blast, with his arm and hand affected. He has since undergone surgery, according to the club.

The fixture has been rescheduled for Wednesday evening.

Update from the Daily Mail at 2:30 a.m. EDT:

German police searched properties belonging to 'two suspects from the Islamist spectrum' on Wednesday and placed in durance vile
Drop the gat, Rocky, or you're a dead 'un!
a 25-year-old Iraqi man from Wuppertal - not far from Dortmund - meaning another man is still on the loose.

The second suspect is a German, aged 28, from Froenderburg, near Unna, also in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia.

They have both reportedly been on the police and intelligence services radar for affiliation to ISIS while it has been claimed that one of them was seen in the vicinity of the scene of the crime shortly before the pipe shrapnel bombs were detonated.

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Europe

Bomb attack on Dortmund team bus

2017-04-12

[Telegraph] Borussia Dortmund's team bus was hit by three explosions while on its way to the Champions League semi-final against Monaco on Tuesday evening, leaving one player injured in hospital.

German security sources said it was a targeted attack on the team bus, leaving the vehicle's windows shattered. Police said "serious explosive devices" were used.

A German prosecutor said a letter found near the site of the attack "takes responsibility for the act".
I'll be at the Bayern vs Madrid match tomorrow. Intimidation won't work

The Telegraph is liveblogging the story, so check the link for updates. Filed under War on Terror until information comes in definitively showing this is a non-WoT attack -- such as native anarchists or yobs who've picked up bad habits from the colonists.
Update at 10:30 a.m. EDT: the Telegraph started a new liveblog in their news section this morning here. Below are their bullet points at this time:

Two alleged Islamic extremists focus of bomb investigation

One Islamist suspect detained after police search homes

'Terrorist link' examined after triple blasts hit Dortmund bus

Bombs contained pins and one found embedded in headrest

Letter claiming responsibility 'refers to Berlin market attack'

It is written 'in the name of Allah' and 'mentions Angela Merkel'

High security as match against Monaco delayed until tonight

#bedforawayfans: Stranded supporters offered accommodation

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