Police set up a road block outside the stadium while trains coming into Hanover were stopped after the threat on November 17, 2015.
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No explosives were found in Hanover after the football match between Germany and the Netherlands was cancelled due to threat of attacks involving explosives on Tuesday evening, Interior Minister of German state of Lower Saxony said. “We will present that we proceed with our free lifestyle”, Schippers had stated earlier than the match, explaining her presence.
Over 40,000 supporters were expected at the match, including German Chancellor Angela Merkel.
Dagmar Freitag, president of the sports committee of the German parliament, said the Hannover incident will “surely have an influence” on sports events and the Bundesliga but that “we’ll have to react in a level-headed way”. “We took them seriously and that is why we took the measures”. “We have prepared for this kind of scenario”. “After careful consideration, we made a decision to cancel for the safety of the people”.
He added that they were “of course considering” added security for the upcoming round of matches.
Police received a “concrete threat” about a bomb, according to the German DPA.
On Friday three suicide bombers attacked areas outside Paris’ Stade de France as Germany played the French national side.
Quoting an official paper said to have come from the Bundesverfassungsschutz (officially “Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution” in English), Bild said that security services assumed the leading attacker planned to film the intended attack in the stadium.
Merkel called the decision a tough one, but said the orderly behaviour still represented a victory over terrorism.
Fans were told to leave “quickly”, but without panic and go home. Police became more forceful with members of the media who attempted to stay beside the stadium.
His Interior Minister Boris Pistorius said indications of a security threat had hardened up over the course of Tuesday.
DFL president Reinhard Rauball has made it clear there are no plans to postpone this weekend’s round of Bundesliga action in the wake of the cancellation of Tuesday’s worldwide friendly between Germany and Netherlands for security reasons.
Both the Netherlands and German team were on their way to the stadium by bus when the match was cancelled.
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Before the match, players were practising the French anthem “La Marseillaise”, which they had been set to sing in a sign of solidarity with the shaken nation.
