The German football team has released a statement after safely returning home from Paris, where several coordinated terrorist attacks took place last night.
Six locations were targeted in attacks that have claimed at least 128 lives, with hundreds more being treated in hospital.
Germany were playing France in an international friendly at the Stade de France, where three men are reported to have died after detonating suicide bombs in food outlets just outside the ground.
Explosions could be heard from inside the stadium during the first half, but the match continued until the final whistle as France ran out 2-0 winners.
The German Football Association released the below statement on their website and confirmed that they had returned to Frankfurt earlier today after staying overnight inside the stadium.
"We came to Paris to do what connects us all - to play football, together, against one another and in friendship," read the statement. "To have an enjoyable evening together with our fans, to show sporting ambition, but particularly we came for a fair and peaceful encounter.
"We all looked forward to playing in the Stade de France, to have a great night of football, which ended up turning into a nightmare.
"It was a dull bang, which changed everything. It produced pictures that will remain in our heads for a long time. We spent the night doing a lot of thought-processing. We asked ourselves why something like this could happen? How is such inhumanity even possible?
"There were a lot of answers, but none that could explain these cowardly attacks. We lost a game of football on Friday evening. But nothing is as irrelevant as that right now."
There are doubts over whether Tuesday's friendly between Germany and Netherlands will now go ahead, although both the Football Association and French Football Federation have confirmed that England vs. France will take place.
Pascal Lemesre
