About a week after an employee of the German railway company Deutsche Bahn died from injuries he sustained after being attacked by a 26-year-old passenger on a regional train, another offender attacked a 42-year-old female guide in Germany. The local police informed about this on Tuesday, writes TASR according to the report of the DPA agency.
- In Germany, there was another attack on a train employee.
- A passenger without a ticket assaulted the conductor on the train, then ran away.
- Police have launched an investigation into the attempted assault and are looking for witnesses.
- The incident happened a week after the death of a conductor following an attack on a regional train.
- The suspect in the first incident was detained, the attack happened without the use of a weapon.
A conductor was checking tickets on a train from Stuttgart to Crailsheim on Sunday. According to federal police, the woman encountered a 21-year-old passenger without a ticket and asked him to pay the fine. However, the suspect approached the guide, spat on her leg and, according to witnesses, tried to hit her in the stomach with a bottle. He then fled the scene.
The police started an investigation into the attempted assault and asked for the cooperation of witnesses. The incident came less than a week after a fatal attack on a train conductor, which the national rail carrier said was the first such case in the company’s history.
A 36-year-old employee was assaulted by a passenger on a regional train departing from Landstuhl station southwest of Frankfurt during ticket control after the employee asked him to leave the train. The other passengers gave first aid to the driver. Paramedics then took him to hospital in critical condition, where he later died.
According to the police spokeswoman, the suspect, a Greek citizen living in Germany, was detained at the scene of the crime. The suspect told authorities he lives in Luxembourg. According to the first findings, he did not use a weapon in the attack and did not have a criminal record in Germany.
