Media report: Thousands of acts of violence and sexual crimes at prepare stations and on trains | EUROtoday

According to a media report, there have been 1000’s of violent crimes on trains and at stations final yr. These included greater than 980 knife offenses and round 2,200 sexual offenses which might be on report, as “Bild am Sonntag” experiences, citing figures from the Federal Police.

A complete of 5,660 violent crimes have been registered in opposition to federal cops within the railway sector. In 2024 there have been round 5,500.

According to the report, there was a very excessive stage of violence on the major prepare station in Leipzig with 859 crimes, adopted by the primary prepare stations in Dortmund (735) and Berlin (654). This was adopted by the primary stations of Cologne (648), Hanover (612), Hamburg (580), Munich (553), Nuremberg (528), Frankfurt am Main (520) and Düsseldorf (499).

The report additionally states that non-German suspects – measured by way of their proportion of the entire inhabitants – have been recognized extra regularly than German suspects.

Consequences of deadly assault

At the start of February, a prepare attendant was attacked by a passenger whereas checking tickets on a regional prepare in Rhineland-Palatinate. The 36-year-old suffered such extreme head accidents that he died in hospital. The suspect is in custody. According to the general public prosecutor’s workplace, it’s a 26-year-old Greek citizen who says he lives in Luxembourg.

Top representatives from the federal, state and Deutsche Bahn lately agreed on concrete penalties. There must be extra physique cameras for railway workers. In addition, 200 further workers are to be employed to enhance safety at prepare stations.

Improvements to the protecting gear of railway workers are additionally deliberate. They ought to obtain extra coaching in behavioral and de-escalation coaching. An emergency button must be additional developed with a view to get assist extra rapidly in an emergency.

According to the railway, there have been a complete of round 3,000 bodily assaults on the corporate’s workers final yr. Further penalties will likely be mentioned on the subsequent transport ministers’ convention at first of March.