Wheelchair user almost pushed into the track bed: courageous witness prevents misfortune
Created: 2022-08-09 04:56
By: Niklas Hecht
A woman tries to push a wheelchair user onto the track bed at Frankfurt Central Station.
However, a courageous witness prevents this.
Frankfurt – For reasons that are not yet known, a dispute between a 53-year-old woman from Frankfurt and a 51-year-old woman in a wheelchair from Mainz escalated on Thursday afternoon (4 August) at Frankfurt Central Station.
As reported by the Federal Police Inspectorate in Frankfurt am Main, the woman from Frankfurt hit the wheelchair user several times with her fist on the upper body, arms and face.
She defended herself with several kicks, whereupon the woman from Frankfurt tried to push the 51-year-old wheelchair user from the platform onto the track, between the buffer stop and the end of a train standing on platform 21.
However, a previously unknown witness prevented this through his courageous intervention.
The two women who were fighting were eventually separated by federal police officers.
The flashing lights of a police car.
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Attacked wheelchair user at Frankfurt Central Station: Police are looking for courageous witnesses
The wheelchair user suffered minor injuries in the form of bruises on the head and pain in the upper body and thighs, the 53-year-old woman from Frankfurt, who was provisionally arrested by the Federal Police, was unharmed.
As part of the investigation into the woman from Frankfurt, the police are looking for the witness who showed civil courage in this incident.
He is asked to call 069/130145 1100 or via www.bundespolizei.de.
(Niklas Hecht)
The police always have their hands full at Frankfurt Central Station.
A few months ago, for example, investigators arrested a criminal couple who were wanted all over Europe.
The man and his companion behaved so suspiciously that day that the officers took notice.
