View of a platform at Gesundbrunnen S-Bahn station (archive photo) Photo: picture alliance/dpa
From the BZ editorial team
Incredible attack on Friday afternoon in Gesundbrunnen. There, a man pushed a woman into an approaching train after she said she wasn’t interested. The 22-year-old was lucky and was unharmed.
According to the woman’s statements to the police, the 22-year-old was on a platform at Gesundbrunnen station around 3 p.m. when she was spoken to by an unknown man.
In the course of what had been a friendly conversation, the woman stated that she was not interested in men, about which her counterpart suddenly got very angry, became insulting and uttered hate speech.
Then he pushed the 22-year-old against the incoming S-Bahn. The woman fled and later called the police.
Based on the description of the person, emergency services arrested a man in the Gesundbrunnen underground station at around 9:50 p.m. that same evening. The 48-year-old was taken into police custody for identification purposes and was then able to continue on his way.
The criminal investigations are ongoing.