The suspect in the attack on the Borussia Dortmund Team buson 11 April was looking to profit financially in a convoluted plan reliant on a share price crash. This is a step change, all be it with some heritage, but it is ultimately a flawed one.

Already labelled as “speculator terrorism”, such a strategy relies on the terror effect, and therein lies the flaw. Fear of terrorism is rarely seen for all the headlines, alerts and policies it generates. Instead terrorism has become the prominent means of “othering”, those in our societies and distinguishing politicised identities.

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