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		</div><p>A 28-year-old arrested on suspicion of bombing the bus carrying the Borussia Dortmund football team last week was motivated by financial greed, prosecutors said.</p>
<p>A Dortmund player and a policeman were injured in the triple blasts as the bus was heading to the team&#8217;s stadium for a Champions League match against AS Monaco.<br />
The German-Russian citizen was arrested on Friday in Germany.</p>
<p>Prosecutors said the suspect, identified only as Sergej W in keeping with German privacy law, was arrested by a police tactical response team in the early hours in or near the southwestern city of Tuebingen.</p>
<p>The man faces charges of attempted murder, causing an explosion and serious bodily harm.</p>
<p>Prosecutors said they planned to make a statement later, but revealed that the suspect had taken out a loan and bought a large number of so-called put options for shares of Borussia Dortmund, betting on a drop in the share price.</p>
<p><i>&#8220;A significant share price drop could have been expected if a player had been seriously injured or even killed as a result of the attack,&#8221;</i> they said.</p>
<p>Ralf Jaeger, the top security official in North Rhine-Westphalia state, said the suspect had hoped to earn millions.</p>
<p><i>&#8220;The man appears to have wanted to commit murder out of greed,&#8221;</i> said Mr Jaeger.</p>
<p>Prosecutors said they were able to trace the computer used to purchase the put options to the luxury hotel in Dortmund where the team had been staying.</p>
<p>They said the suspect had also booked a room there and placed three explosives, packed with shrapnel, along the route the bus would take to reach the stadium.</p>
<p><i>&#8220;The explosive devices were detonated at the optimum time,&#8221;</i> prosecutors said, noting that the team bus was equipped only with security glass and not reinforced glass.</p>
<p>Several windows on the bus were shattered in the blasts, injuring defender Marc Bartra. A police officer accompanying the bus also suffered trauma from the blast.</p>
<p>Investigators found notes at the scene claiming responsibility on behalf of Islamic extremists, but quickly doubted their authenticity.</p>
<p>The notes demanded that Germany withdraw reconnaissance jets assisting the fight against Islamic State group and close the US Ramstein Air Base in Germany.</p>
<p>But experts said the letter&#8217;s mix of correct, complicated German and obvious mistakes suggested it was a red herring, as were two subsequent claims pointing to left-wing and right-wing extremists.</p>
<p>The club thanked authorities in a statement on Facebook: <i>&#8220;The fact that no further people were injured or killed was, as we now know, purely a matter of luck.&#8221;</i></p>
<p>Captain Marcel Schmelzer said the team hopes to learn further details about the background to the attack.</p>
<p>He added: <i>&#8220;This information is important to everyone who sat in the bus because it would make it significantly easier to process (what happened).&#8221;</i></p>
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