In the case of the Manhole cover-attack on regional trains in North Rhine-Westphalia, the authorities have no evidence of a terrorist Background. "For a terrorist attack, there is according to the current state of the investigation no evidence," said a spokesman for the police on Monday.
the Unknown had hung in the night to Saturday, several Manhole cover from a bridge down on ropes over the rails, such as police and prosecutors informed rushed. The lid hit the front windscreen of a train of the Hessian state railway, the transit between Bad Berleburg and Erndtebrück in North Rhine Westphalia. The 49-year-old driver, was slightly injured. The authorities spoke of a murder attempt. "If someone depends on a massive Manhole covers to the height of the driver's stand, then it's no longer about to damage the train on the roof or on the side. Then you take the death of the driver's condone," said attorney Philip sharp tree. Due to a scheduled empty no passengers were aboard the train.
"Otherwise he'd be dead right now"
It had been the uniform Act, also said the police spokesman. Therefore, a homicide had been set up. "We conclude anything for the moment." The investigators continue to believe that the found at the crime scene Manhole covers had been stolen in the night from Thursday to Friday from the County road 31 in Hilchenbach. According to the police The engineer had carried out "an emergency brake and to the rear weggeduckt, so that it neither glass splinters nor Manhole covers have taken. Otherwise he would be dead by now," said a spokeswoman for the railway company, Hessian state railway (HLB) of the imagenewspaper. Further you said: "This was an outrageous attack, in the aware of the death of a human being. It is not a so-called Stupid boy's prank. The someone is planned with criminal intent to proceed. We are very concerned and scared." You would like to know, "whether it has hit us randomly, or the HLB should be harmed". A blackmailer or claims of responsibility are not. On the affected route, the line, RB 93, Bad Berleburg (North Rhine-Westphalia) and Altenkirchen (Rhineland-Palatinate) runs combines and Siegen (North Rhine-Westphalia).