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15th November 2015
04:42pm GMT

"We wanted to eliminate any risk and that's why we decided not to drive through Paris and go back to the hotel which probably wouldn't have been 100 per cent safe," Oliver Bierhoff, Germany's business manager indicated. "We had to stay in the dressing room - we had no choice."
Hearing that their German opponents - who had been evacuated from their team hotel earlier in the day - would remain in the stadium, the French team opted to do the same.
"The French said that they were staying as long as Germany had to stay," explained Rauball who described the decision as “an outstanding gesture of camaraderie”.
The German team were able to leave the stadium the following morning having spent the night in their dressing room on mattresses.
They arrived safely back in Frankfurt later on Saturday.Explore more on these topics: