Nearly two weeks ago, hanging Manhole covers damaged from a bridge down the window of a train in Bad Berleburg. The investigators had initially spoken of a murder attempt. Now you suspect the driver. It’s DNA had been traces found at the crime scene, suggesting it as a possible culprit. The man denies the fact. In the absence of grounds for remand he has been released. the
According to the Manhole cover-attack on a regional train in Bad Berleburg in North Rhine-Westphalia, the 49-year-old driver of the train is now under suspicion. The police and Prosecutor’s office informed on Thursday. A train of the Hessian runway was nearly two weeks ago against several Manhole covers hazards, which hung from a bridge over the tracks. The train had been to this time, only the driver.
Through the analysis of DNA traces at the crime scene, the train driver was the focus of the investigators, tells the police. The Prosecutor’s office obtained a court order of the local court of Siegen, Search warrants for the apartment of the man in Lünen and in Erndtebrück. On Wednesday they had been searched. Police officers arrested the driver on Erndtebrücker the station provisionally. The man denies the fact and reasons on Thursday in the absence of Detention – such as escape or the danger of collusion – released. The investigations continue, it is part of the police and the Prosecutor’s office.
What motive could have had the man for such an act? And how, exactly, he should have you executed? These questions remain so far unanswered. The man is on leave until Further notice. He had been taken out of service, not to burden him in addition to the ongoing investigation, said a spokeswoman for the Hesse state Railways.
“Moderate shock” the engine driver
on the question, whether the driver had stolen the Manhole cover itself in the more than 20 kilometers away in the city of Hilchenbach, there is still no clarity, said the Prosecutor. A total of four cast-iron covers were more than 24 hours before the fact, on a street in Hilchenbach stolen. Two dangling, according to investigators details of the bridge, another was found in the track bed. The fourth, the police found in the crime scene vicinity.
The alleged attack had caused for horror. First of all, the police and the Prosecutor’s office had assumed that the Unknown had hung up the Manhole covers. Thus, had – so the first appearance of at least one of the heavy cast-iron layers of the lid, the front window of the train power. The train and the train driver had been at the time on a scheduled empty run between Bad Berleburg and Erndtebrück. The Prosecutor’s office was investigating the attempted murder.
The Hessen state railway (HLB) had spoken after the incident an “outrageous attack”, in the aware of the death of a person had been taken into account. The Hessian state railway operates the line RB 93, which runs between Bad Berleburg (North Rhine-Westphalia) and Altenkirchen (Rhineland-Palatinate) and Siegen (North Rhine-Westphalia). The train driver had suffered in accordance with the information of the HLB of a “moderate shock”. The man had performed an emergency braking and to the rear weggeduckt, it was said after the incident, on the part of the HLB. “We are glad that, through his spirit present reaction, nothing worse happened,” a spokeswoman said at the time.
That the driver was not at full speed, but with a moderate pace of 50 kilometers per hour on the track, was the speaker at the time, that he had been on the way to the train station and still not in full use. In the light of the new insights all of this information now being challenged.
From the latest developments of the HLB affected. In a message, it means that the company only learned from the press that the driver will be determined. “This is a serious allegation that has hit us deeply.” With a view to the ongoing investigation they wanted to give, however, no further information.
