The teenager, who was thrown onto the railway tracks by a violent perpetrator at Altena station on Sunday afternoon ( January 8), was apparently a random victim of the perpetrator. This is the assumption of the district police of the Märkische district, who are investigating the background to this horrific deed.
As reported yesterday, the 16-year-old girl from Nachrodt had got off the regional express train to Dortmund at Altena station at around 5.15 p.m. and had made her way across the platform.
Suddenly a young man ran after her, grabbed her from behind and threw her over the edge of the platform right into the track in front of the stunned passengers. Then he jumped after her himself and held the young girl pressed down on the tracks.
Determined witnesses immediately rushed to the 16-year-old’s aid, freed her and shortly afterwards locked the perpetrator – who got back on the waiting train with his suitcase – in the train together with railway employees. The police then arrested him. The teenager who was attacked suffered injuries, which were treated on the spot by the ambulance service.
The police spokesman reported that the attacker, who had been temporarily arrested, was 27 years old and a resident of Nuremberg. He was under the influence of drugs (amphetamines) when he attacked the young girl. Earlier in the train, he had already insulted and abused other passengers.
At the instigation of the Altena public order office and after an examination by a doctor, the 27-year-old was admitted to a psychiatric clinic. According to the psychiatric hospital, he can release himself from the hospital. An application for pre-trial detention has not yet been filed.
When asked by our editorial office, police spokesman Marcel Dilling informed us that the suspect is a Syrian national. “As usual, we do not provide any information on prior police knowledge for reasons of data protection,” Dilling reminds us of a specific language regulation of the district police authority of the Märkische district.
The 16-year-old from Nachrodt “got into the situation by chance”, Dilling makes clear: “They don’t know each other.”
Execute him and rid the world of a monster.