Yet another incident on Germany’s public transport has left a 36-year-old Deutsche Bahn (DB) employee with life-threatening injuries.
The attack took place on Monday evening as a regional train was leaving Landstuhl station in Rhineland-Palatinate. After being unable to show his ticket, a 26-year-old man attacked the ticket inspector, who fell unconscious. Fortunately, passengers, including one Bundeswehr soldier, were able to resuscitate the victim and provide basic first aid until he was taken to the hospital; they also alerted police, according to Deutsche Welte.
Saarland State Police and the Federal Police arrested the suspect, with the investigation into his background and motive ongoing; the charge so far is attempted manslaughter.
CEO of Deutsche Bahn, Evelyn Palla, posted a message on LinkedIn condemning the attack, offering condolences to the employee’s family, and also thanking those who intervened to help. She also confirmed that the victim was in critical condition.
“I am appalled and outraged by the terrible act of violence against our colleague. Serkan C. was just doing his job early Monday evening: He checked tickets as a customer service representative in local transport at DB Regio. He was brutally attacked by a passenger without a ticket on the journey between Kaiserslautern and Saarbrücken. He is currently in hospital, the doctors are fighting for his life.
“I would like to thank the Bundeswehr soldier who provided first aid on the train, as well as the Federal Police and the doctors for their quick action and deployment,” her post reads.
Palla also highlighted that such attacks “have been increasing for years” and bemoaned how German society has become seemingly immune to such violence.
“Unfortunately, the attacks on our employees, as well as on members of the police, fire brigade and rescue services, have been increasing for years. The inhibition threshold for violence in our society is falling. Any form of violence in our society is completely unacceptable. We must and will do more together with employee representatives and partners to protect our colleagues. Acts like these must shake us all awake.”
The head of the Railway and Transport Union (EVG), Martin Burkert, told press, as cited by Sued Deutsche: “We are appalled and speechless. Above all, we are angry,” he said. “We will no longer accept that train conductors put themselves in mortal danger as soon as they start their shift.”
Based on data received from the Federal Ministry of the Interior in response to an inquiry from the Left Party, for the first 10 months of 2025, on average, five employees of Deutsche Bahn are physically assaulted on duty every day. In addition, there are four cases of threats per day.
In total, 1,231 Deutsche Bahn employees were victims of physical assault and 324 were victims of aggravated assault during this period.
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— Remix News & Views (@RMXnews) October 16, 2024In 2024, German train conductors in the state of Thuringia were given permission not to check the tickets of foreign passengers after an increase in threatening behavior from asylum seekers towards staff.
Foreigners have been implicated in numerous incidents targeting train staff, including brutal assaults. As noted in previous articles, European train conductors, ticket controllers, and other staff are bearing the brunt of mass immigration in Europe.
Data has shown that foreigners are vastly overrepresented in serious crimes at German train stations and on German trains. Foreigners only make up about 15 percent of the German population, but these same suspects account for and tremendous 59 percent of all sexual crimes at German train stations, according to federal police data obtained by the NIUS outlet.
These serous crimes include everything from migrants masturbating on rail lines, resulting in regional traffic shutdowns, to German staff being terrorized to the point that they are not showing up for work, including due to physical assaults and sexual violence. There is now even a policy in place to not check train tickets for people who look to be foreign out of fear of assault.
