An 18-year-old woman was seriously wounded in a knife attack aboard a regional train near the Saarland town of Sulzbach on Monday afternoon. She was transported to the hospital and, while her injuries are serious, a police spokesman confirmed she is not in a critical condition.
The alleged attacker, a 21-year-old man, was arrested at the scene. Both suspect and victim are listed as German nationals, according to Welt newspaper.
According to police, the two knew each other prior to the incident. The attack occurred at approximately 3:45 p.m. Federal Police had initially only reported “a physical altercation on a regional express train” before the full details emerged.
The spokesman said. “The investigation into a possible motive and the exact course of events is still ongoing,” he added.
The incident is the latest in a series of violent attacks on trains in the region. Just last February, a train conductor was fatally assaulted on the route between Landstuhl and Homburg, also in Saarland, by a Greek national. The attacker struck his victim repeatedly in the head with such force that the conductor died several days later — a case that triggered nationwide shock and prompted calls for greater security on regional rail services.
Other harrowing incidents have beset the German public transport system, including the case of Michael Kyrath, who lost his daughter during a knife attack perpetrated by a Palestinian migrant.
Overall, migrant crime is fueling the crisis. In states like Saxony, 50 percent of perpetrators are foreigners.
The number of violent crimes at Berlin Central Station in 2024 has tripled compared to 2019, which was the last year before the coronavirus crisis. In Cologne, violent crime has grown 70 percent in the same timeframe, according to Welt newspaper.
Those are just two cities, but the same trend is seen everywhere.
“Look at a main train station, in Duisburg, in Hamburg, in Frankfurt. Neglect, drug dealers, young men, mostly with a migrant background, mostly from Eastern Europe or Arab-Muslim cultural areas. This also has to do with irregular migration, as it looks in our inner cities, in the marketplaces,” said Jens Spahn, the CDU parliamentary group leader, in a BILD interview. Remarkably, his own party is massively responsible for Germany’s incredible demographic transformation and crime crisis.
National data also showed that foreigners commit 59 percent of all sexual crimes on German trains and at train stations, with serious sexual crimes doubling since 2019.
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