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Dortmund bus attack 'may have been carried out by right-wing extremists who attempted to frame Islamists'
Prosecutors are investigating whether right-wing extremists may have bombed a football team bus in Germany and then attempted to frame Islamists.
Investigators are also exploring the possibility that the explosives used in the bombing originated from the country's military.
"The explosives in the pipe bombs, which were filled with metal pins, might have come from the stocks of the German armed forces but that's still being checked," newspaper Welt am Sonntag cited a source involved in the investigation as saying.
Three identical letters found at the scene of Tuesday’s attack claimed they were carried out “in the name of Allah”, calling on Germany to withdraw its reconnaissance planes from Syria.
Suspicion immediately turned to Isis but no claim of responsibility was issued by the terrorist group, with a second claim emerging from a left-wing radical group online not considered credible.
A third claim has now been sent to the German newspaper Tagesspiegel, from a far-right group claiming it was behind the triple bombing in Dortmund and threatening further attacks.
The anonymous email included references to Adolf Hitler and railed against multiculturalism, saying the bombing was the
“last warning” before “coloured blood will flow” on 22 April.
That is the date of huge left-wing demonstrations planned at the Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) convention in Cologne, protesting against the populist party’s alleged racism, xenophobia and neo-Nazi links.
Federal prosecutors said they were examining the email amid speculation that the original letters may have been a ploy to frame Islamists and divert investigators from the true perpetrators, while stoking tensions.
“The overall circumstances lead us to believe it's most likely that the perpetrators have a right-wing background,” an investigator told Bild.Frauke Köhler, a spokesperson for the prosecutor’s office, confirmed that “significant doubts” had emerged over the letters left at the scene of the bombing but did not give further details.
The documents, which were written in German, opened with the Islamic bismillah – a phrase meaning “in the name of Allah, the most gracious, the most merciful” that is commonly invoked in the original Arabic.
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