Saturday morning, just before 9 a.m. Around 300 passengers sit in the ICE 928 from Passau (Bavaria) in the direction of Hamburg, reading, sleeping and talking. Until one of them picks up the knife!
Halfway between Regensburg and Nuremberg suddenly screams from car 4. A Syrian (27) stabs three travelers with a knife. The men (26, 39, 60) are seriously injured.
A traveler told the “Mittelbayerische Zeitung” that a woman had armed herself with hairspray, and that the train driver opposed the knife with a fire extinguisher.
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This is how witnesses experienced the attack
► Renate Kammann (77) was standing in the aisle when she heard the screams of the other passengers: “You shouted, there is a knife. Everything backwards. ‘ They almost ran over me. “
►Ludwig Faust (68) was also on the train, says Bild am Sonntag: “We heard the screams. People came running out of car 4. I wanted to know what was going on when I suddenly saw a man on the floor. Fortunately, the police were there incredibly quickly. “
An emergency call is made, the engine driver stops the train at the small station in Seubersdorf. There the police rush to car 4, overpower the knife attacker, and arrest him immediately. Final destination!
Police officers in special equipment. Chain mail and trousers are designed to protect against knife wounds, an attacker is kept at a distance with a stickPhoto: Fabian Schreiner
All passengers have to get off the train, are accommodated in the village hall and questioned by the police. The injured come to hospitals, there is no danger to life. According to a witness, a young man is said to have had a stab wound in the chest and several on the head.
A paramedic escorts a woman off the trainPhoto: Fabian Schreiner
Suspect arrived from Syria in 2014
According to BILD-am-Sonntag.Infos, the perpetrator is the Syrian Abdalrahman A. (27), who entered Germany as a refugee in 2014 and is said to have called for help on the train. It is not yet known why the man attacked three people.
Police officers and paramedics lead a man with a head bandage and thermal foil out of the train, apparently one of the victimsPhoto: Fabian Schreiner
“The background of the act is currently still completely unclear,” said a police spokesman. According to the police, there are no specific indications of other perpetrators so far. According to BILD am SONNTAG information, A. lives in a student residence in Passau. There was a police operation there yesterday.
Federal Interior Minister Horst Seehofer (72, CSU) said on Twitter: “I would like to thank everyone, especially the police and the train staff, for their courageous efforts, which prevented even worse things.”
The Regensburg – Nuremberg railway was closed for hours, and trains only started running again yesterday evening.
