A friendly soccer game between The Netherlands and Germany was cancelled after police received a serious threat that a bomb would go off at the stadium in Hannover, Germany.
There were two bomb threats. The first proved to be a false alarm, but Hannover police chief Volker Klure told German TV that a second threat could not be ignored.
“We had concrete evidence that someone wanted to set off an explosive device in the stadium,” he said, reports CBS News. “After the first object turned out to be harmless, we got a tip that had to be taken seriously that an attack was being planned.”
ABC News reports that the game was canceled less than 90 minutes before it was set to start.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel and other members of the government were slated to attend the game. They had not arrived when the game was cancelled and some fans didn’t even make it inside the stadium.
A concert at the Hannover Pavilion was also cancelled.
The decision comes after Friday’s attacks in Paris. That night, Germany was playing France when three suicide bombers went off outside. One other person was killed. There were also attacks in other parts of the city and 129 people died in total.