Deutsche Bahn security guard critically injured after falling from moving train in altercation with passenger
A security guard of Deutsche Bahn fell from a moving train and is critically injured after a physical altercation with a passenger during a ticket control on the route from Offenburg to Karlsruhe on Friday evening.
According to the police and public prosecutor's office, the incident started as a verbal altercation during a ticket control. Two security guards were called in after a passenger, allegedly intoxicated, insulted them. The altercation turned physical between one of the security guards, aged 26, and the passenger, aged 36.
During the struggle, both individuals fell to the floor. At this point, the door of the moving train opened for reasons yet unclear, and the 26-year-old security guard fell out of the train near Ettlingen-Bruchhausen.
The passenger was arrested by the police while still on the train. The injured security guard was found approximately two kilometers from where the train later stopped, after a large-scale search. He was taken to a hospital for treatment of life-threatening injuries.
The exact circumstances of the incident and the speed of the train at the time are still under investigation. The train involved is not being used for now due to ongoing investigations.
This incident is part of a series of increasing attacks on railway personnel. In February, a conductor was beaten to death by a passenger without a ticket in Rhineland-Palatinate. Last week, the 26-year-old perpetrator was sentenced to ten years in prison for bodily harm resulting in death.
According to the Federal Ministry of the Interior, in the first five months of this year, 1,630 employees of Deutsche Bahn and 4,672 federal police officers were threatened, attacked, or otherwise became victims of a crime.
The investigation into the background and exact course of the events is ongoing.
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