Stunned after death of a boy
An eight-year-old boy died on Monday at the Frankfurt train station.
He and his mother had been pushed onto the tracks by what appeared to be a complete stranger.
The woman could save herself, for the child any help came too late.
The question of why remains.
Apprehension, shock and grief spread on Monday, eyewitnesses at Frankfurt's main station collapsed in tears. One morning, a man had pushed a woman and her eight-year-old son onto the trackbed. The 40-year-old mother had saved herself on a footpath between two tracks. The eight-year-old was captured and killed by an incoming ICE.
A suspect was arrested, the 40-year-old man is said to come from Eritrea. According to dpa information, he lives in Switzerland. So far, he has not yet commented on the attack. As a spokeswoman for the prosecutor said, he will be presented on Tuesday to the magistrate. The police are investigating a homicidal crime and are evaluating video recordings. She called witnesses to come forward.
The suspect is said to have tried with another person to push them on the tracks. He fled first, but was followed by passers-by and later arrested by the police outside the station. The alleged perpetrator and his victims did not know each other according to the investigation. The boy's mother was taken to a hospital and given emergency medical care. Deutsche Bahn announced that it would be releasing a psychological support helicopter for witnesses to the incident. Frankfurt Central Station is one of the largest train stations in Germany and is visited by almost 500,000 people every day.
https://orf.at/stories/3131939/
(german)
Similar case just a week ago
The case is reminiscent of an attack that took place in Voerde in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia just over a week ago: There, a man had pushed a woman at a train station in front of a regional train and thus killed. The 28-year-old suspect - a Serb born in Germany - is in custody on suspicion of murder.
As in the case of Frankfurt, the alleged perpetrator and the victim did not know each other according to the investigators. According to a blood test, the 28-year-old has evidence of cocaine use. It had been detected in him degradation products of cocaine in the blood. "But that does not mean that he was actually under cocaine influence," said the Duisburg prosecutor on Monday.
An eight-year-old boy died on Monday at the Frankfurt train station.
He and his mother had been pushed onto the tracks by what appeared to be a complete stranger.
The woman could save herself, for the child any help came too late.
The question of why remains.
Apprehension, shock and grief spread on Monday, eyewitnesses at Frankfurt's main station collapsed in tears. One morning, a man had pushed a woman and her eight-year-old son onto the trackbed. The 40-year-old mother had saved herself on a footpath between two tracks. The eight-year-old was captured and killed by an incoming ICE.
A suspect was arrested, the 40-year-old man is said to come from Eritrea. According to dpa information, he lives in Switzerland. So far, he has not yet commented on the attack. As a spokeswoman for the prosecutor said, he will be presented on Tuesday to the magistrate. The police are investigating a homicidal crime and are evaluating video recordings. She called witnesses to come forward.
The suspect is said to have tried with another person to push them on the tracks. He fled first, but was followed by passers-by and later arrested by the police outside the station. The alleged perpetrator and his victims did not know each other according to the investigation. The boy's mother was taken to a hospital and given emergency medical care. Deutsche Bahn announced that it would be releasing a psychological support helicopter for witnesses to the incident. Frankfurt Central Station is one of the largest train stations in Germany and is visited by almost 500,000 people every day.
https://orf.at/stories/3131939/
(german)
Similar case just a week ago
The case is reminiscent of an attack that took place in Voerde in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia just over a week ago: There, a man had pushed a woman at a train station in front of a regional train and thus killed. The 28-year-old suspect - a Serb born in Germany - is in custody on suspicion of murder.
As in the case of Frankfurt, the alleged perpetrator and the victim did not know each other according to the investigators. According to a blood test, the 28-year-old has evidence of cocaine use. It had been detected in him degradation products of cocaine in the blood. "But that does not mean that he was actually under cocaine influence," said the Duisburg prosecutor on Monday.