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Germany arrests suspect in Dortmund team bus attack

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Police guarded the Borussia Dortmund bus as it arrived at Stade Louis II in Monaco on Wednesday

Police commandos on Friday arrested a German-Russian suspect behind a bomb attack on Borussia Dortmund's team bus, prosecutors said, indicating the motive was financial and not terror-related.

They said the man, identified only as 28-year-old Sergej W., was hoping to profit from a drop in the football team's share price as a result of the attack.

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