Qualla: Borussia Dortmund team bus bombing https://qualla.com/borussia-dortmund-team-bus-bombing en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:34 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/u/1/j/k/borussia-dortmund-team-bus-bombing-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Borussia Dortmund team bus bombing https://qualla.com/borussia-dortmund-team-bus-bombing Borussia Dortmund team bus bombing: Introduction https://qualla.com/borussia-dortmund-team-bus-bombing/ Photo credit BEN Rijks, CC BY-SA 2.0. Marc Bartra felt the blast lift the bus and slam him sideways into the window. The glass shattered into his right wrist and arm. He thought, in the first seconds, that the team had been attacked by a sniper. The real attack was outside, three pipe bombs hidden in a hedge beside the road, detonated by a man watching from a hotel room window. The man was not a terrorist. He was a 28-year-old trader. He had bought put warrants on Borussia Dortmund's share price earlier the same day, and if enough of the team had been killed, those derivatives would have paid him up to 3.9 million euros.

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]]> Sun, 17 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/1/j/k/borussia-dortmund-team-bus-bombing-wp/u1jk-borussia-dortmund-team-bus-bombing-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Borussia Dortmund team bus bombing: The Bus and the Hedge https://qualla.com/borussia-dortmund-team-bus-bombing/ Photo credit Helfmann, CC BY-SA 4.0. It was the evening of 11 April 2017. Borussia Dortmund's first team was on the short ride from their pre-match hotel to the Westfalenstadion for the first leg of the UEFA Champions League quarter-final against AS Monaco. The bus took its usual route along Wittbraucker Strasse. Th...

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]]> Sun, 17 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/1/j/k/borussia-dortmund-team-bus-bombing-wp/u1jk-borussia-dortmund-team-bus-bombing-the-bus-and-the-hedge.mp3 0:06 2 full Borussia Dortmund team bus bombing: Three Confessions, None Real https://qualla.com/borussia-dortmund-team-bus-bombing/ Photo credit Helfmann, CC BY-SA 4.0. Within hours, three claims of responsibility had surfaced. Three identical letters left at the scene presented an Islamist motive, demanding the closure of the US air base at Ramstein and the withdrawal of German Tornado jets from Syria. A post on the left-wing website IndyMedia ...

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]]> Sun, 17 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/1/j/k/borussia-dortmund-team-bus-bombing-wp/u1jk-borussia-dortmund-team-bus-bombing-three-confessions-none-real.mp3 0:06 3 full Borussia Dortmund team bus bombing: The Banal Truth https://qualla.com/borussia-dortmund-team-bus-bombing/ Photo credit Helfmann, CC BY-SA 4.0. On 21 April 2017, a bank's compliance team flagged an unusual transaction. A 28-year-old German-Russian citizen named Sergei Wenergold had bought 78,000 euros' worth of put warrants on Borussia Dortmund's share price on the day of the attack. Put warrants are derivatives that gai...

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]]> Sun, 17 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/1/j/k/borussia-dortmund-team-bus-bombing-wp/u1jk-borussia-dortmund-team-bus-bombing-the-banal-truth.mp3 0:06 4 full Borussia Dortmund team bus bombing: The Match the Players Did Not Want to Play https://qualla.com/borussia-dortmund-team-bus-bombing/ Photo credit Helfmann, CC BY-SA 4.0. UEFA's response was to reschedule the match for the following day, 12 April, at 18:45. Borussia Dortmund CEO Hans-Joachim Watzke, after consulting with the players, announced that the team would play. The manager, Thomas Tuchel, then said publicly that the decision had been force...

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]]> Sun, 17 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/1/j/k/borussia-dortmund-team-bus-bombing-wp/u1jk-borussia-dortmund-team-bus-bombing-the-match-the-players-did-not-want-to-play.mp3 0:06 5 full Borussia Dortmund team bus bombing: Strangers, Beds, and a Choir https://qualla.com/borussia-dortmund-team-bus-bombing/ Photo credit Helfmann, CC BY-SA 4.0. The kindest part of the story does not need much retelling. Monaco's travelling supporters had nowhere to sleep that night, because the postponement had blown their flights and their bookings. Dortmund residents and Dortmund hotels offered free beds. Strangers walked Monaco fans ...

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