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Doubts about Islamic motive behind Dortmund attack, far-right email received

Related Topics: Dortmund, Islam, Far-right politics, Email

After suggestions of an Islamic motive behind the attacks on the bus of Borrusia Dortmund before their match against AS Monaco in the Champions League, German prosecutors have now expressed their apprehension about the authenticity of the letters that suggested the Islamic ties in the first place.

Earlier, Frauke Köhler, a spokeswoman for the Federal Prosecutor’s Office of Germany, had said that two people with an “Islamist background” had been taken into custody and the three identical letters found at the scene, suggested a radical Islamic motive. They had stated it was carried out “in the name of Allah” and demanded that “Germany should repeal its Tornado aircraft from the campaign in Syria”.