A friendly match between Germany and Holland slated for today in Hannover, Germany has been cancelled after the discovery of an ambulance filled with explosives near the stadium.

This is the second friendly this week to be called off, after Belgium’s match against Spain, due to be played on Tuesday in Brussells, was also cancelled after a security alert.

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It could have happened again.

Police found an ambulance filled with explosives outside a canceled soccer match in Hannover, Germany, immediately invoking fears of another terror attack like last week's massacre in Paris, according to local reports.

"Protecting lives was the only choice," German interior minister Thomas de Maizière said in a news conference, acknowledging the disappointment and fear from fans.
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Authorities also cleared the TUI-Arena, with a performance planned by German band Söhne Mannheims, but did not say if there was a serious threat there.

The Germany-Netherlands friendly game hadn't even started when authorities sealed off the HDI-Arena due to a "suspicious object," police said.

Police deemed it a false alarm and eventually let cheering fans into the stadium, which was crawling with machine gun-toting cops.

But police then ushered everyone outside, and later called off the game.

The German newspaper Kreiszeitung reported officials found an ambulance stuffed with explosives outside the stadium.


Hanover is about 775 miles northeast of Paris, where ISIS terrorists killed at least 129 people in a series of shootings and bombings Friday night.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel was scheduled to watch Hannover game, and said she wanted to prove Germany was not afraid of terror attacks, but officials said she was not at the stadium.

Reporters on the scene said police were holding a man at gunpoint about half a mile from the arena, though it was not immediately clear why.
The axed game came on another day of high fears throughout Europe in the wake of the Paris massacre, which included a suicide bomb attack outside a Germany-France soccer game, with French President Francois Hollande attending. He was not injured. Terrorists also bombed and opened fire at a sold-out Eagles of Death Metal concert.

Hollande made a cooly-received call Tuesday for the EU to join France in its battle against ISIS. As armed guards surveilled the streets of the French capital, police briefly shut down the Eiffel Tower over a bomb threat that turned out to be a false alarm.

ISIS posted a new video mocking the Paris attacks and taunting other countries to wage war with them.

Police still searching the stadium for bombs.

It seems the ambulance was the primary explosive which would have been allowed free access into the stadium after a smaller explosive was set off during the game.