Cologne Central Station: 18-year-old walks across the tracks – "inner voice" ordered her

Created: 06/27/2022, 12:09 p.m

By: Mick Oberbusch

An 18-year-old on the tracks caused chaos at Cologne Central Station on Saturday (June 25) (symbol image, IDZRW montage).

© Federal Police Headquarters Sankt Augustin & Bodo Marks/dpa

An 18-year-old woman caused almost 60 trains to be delayed at Cologne Central Station.

She had followed the instructions of her "inner voice".

Cologne – She should have listened to the police instead of listening to her inner voice: On Saturday evening (June 25), a young woman around Cologne Central Station caused a total delay of 1522 minutes in 58 trains due to her stay in the platform area.

Two trains initiated emergency braking, the police said.

Luckily no one was injured.

Federal police forces followed the track runner into the city and took her into protective custody, as reported by 24RHEIN.

18-year-old walks on rails at Cologne Central Station – delay in around 60 trains

What exactly happened?

On Saturday (June 25) around 7 p.m., a young woman climbed into the life-threatening platform area at Cologne Hansaring station and walked in the platform area over Cologne Central Station in the direction of the Hohenzollern Bridge.

As the police explained when asked by 24RHEIN, the young woman later stated that an "inner voice" had ordered her to take the life-threatening walk.

Thanks to several testimonies, federal police forces took up the pursuit of the track runner and caused the tracks to be blocked in all directions.

• What?

  An 18-year-old walked over the rails at Cologne Central Station and caused around 60 trains to be delayed by a total of more than 1,500 minutes.

  According to the police, the young woman stated that an "inner voice" had advised her to go across the tracks.

• Where?

  Platform area of ​​Cologne Central Station, Cologne, city district of downtown

• When?

  Saturday, June 25, around 7 p.m

When the young woman dressed in black recognized the federal police officers, she tried to flee, but was caught and arrested in the city area by the federal police forces.

They handcuffed the 18-year-old woman to the police station and took her into protective custody.

A video analysis of several cameras at the Hansaring and Hauptbahnhof stations showed the life-threatening track walk up to the Hohenzollern Bridge.

Dangerous walk on the tracks at Cologne Central Station: Police warn of railway systems

• Railway facilities are not a playground!

• No shortcut is worth risking your life!

• Only step onto the tracks at the crossings provided for this purpose!

• Keep your distance from passing trains and don't underestimate the pull!

• Trains cannot swerve and have a long braking distance!

Since the train drivers of two trains initiated emergency braking by stepping on the tracks and to prevent a possible collision, the adolescent has to answer for the dangerous intervention in rail traffic.

Furthermore, the woman could be billed for the costs of the railway company: in addition to a diversion, 13 partial failures and three failures, there were a total of 1522 minutes of delay on 58 trains.

Again and again people in the platform area cause delays and blockages in Cologne Central Station.

At the end of February, several people had entered the platforms at the main station for carnival in Cologne.