BERLIN — A 28-year-old German-Russian citizen took out a five-figure loan to bet that Borussia Dortmund shares would drop, then bombed the soccer team’s bus in an attack he tried to disguise as Islamic terrorism in a scheme to net millions, German officials said Friday. “We are working on the assumption that the suspect is responsible for the attack against the team bus of Borussia Dortmund,” prosecutors’ spokeswoman Frauke Koehler told a news conference Friday. Ralf Jaeger, the top security official in North Rhine-Westphalia state, said the suspect had hoped to earn millions. “The explosive devices were detonated at the optimum time,” prosecutors said, noting that the team bus was equipped only with security glass and not reinforced glass. Dortmund captain Marcel Schmelzer said the team needed to learn all it could about the attack.

Source: National Post April 21, 2017 17:15 UTC