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By: Ulrike Pflueger-Scherb
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A woman from Kassel experiences a frightening night on an ÖBB night train.
She believes she is not the only victim.
Kassel – A woman from Kassel reports that she was recently drugged with gas and robbed while traveling on an Austrian Federal Railways (ÖBB) night train from Padua to Salzburg.
She believes this scam is not an isolated incident.
“I’ll never take the night train again,” says 64-year-old Anna M. from Kassel (name changed by the editors).
If you listen to the pensioner's experiences, you can understand this decision.
Anna M. was robbed the week before last on the night train from Padua (Italy to Salzburg (Austria).
Kasseler was robbed of 380 euros on a night train
380 euros were stolen from her.
However, the woman didn't notice anything about the crime.
She is sure that the professional perpetrators drugged her with gas to get her money.
Anna M. has now heard from two acquaintances from Munich and Stuttgart who are said to have experienced the same thing - when they were traveling on the train in Austria.
There are also various media reports about other travelers who suspect that they were drugged and then robbed on the night train.
When asked, a spokesman for the Austrian Federal Railways (ÖBB) explained that they had “no knowledge of the use of gas to anesthetize passengers”.
However, we regret the negative experiences of travelers from Kassel.
Anna M. sees things differently based on her experience and reports of similar incidents.
She criticizes the fact that the ÖBB does not warn passengers on the trains about the perpetrators.
Was a woman from Kassel drugged on the Austrian Federal Railways (ÖBB) Nightjet?
Anna M. assumes that she was robbed in this way.
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It was on Friday, January 26th, when Anna M. wanted to take the ÖBB Nightjet from Padua to Salzburg after a stay in Venice.
The woman says that another connection that she had originally picked out was canceled because of the rail strike in Germany.
She got on the train in Padua shortly before midnight.
Anna M reports that she had a seating area all to herself. She had her handbag with her wallet and all her papers in front of her chest.
She put a ski jacket over it.
And a loden coat that she buttoned up.
She placed her suitcase in front of the compartment door and clipped her shoes underneath.
Then she unfolded all the flaps on the seats, lay on her stomach and slept.
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“They touched me and unbuttoned me.”
She only realized that she had been robbed during the train ride the next morning in Salzburg.
She had already left the train by then.
At around 7 a.m. she wanted to pay for a coffee at the train station.
When she opened her wallet, she couldn't believe her eyes.
All the cash (a total of 380 euros) was gone.
The perpetrators had no interest in her papers or credit card.
“They don't want anything that could give them away,” says Anna M. Since she is actually a light sleeper, the woman from Kassel assumes that the perpetrators opened the door to her compartment a crack and then used anesthetic gas.
“They touched me and unbuttoned me.
“I didn’t notice anything,” says the woman.
Afterwards she only noticed that her shoes were no longer under her suitcase, but under the bench.
At first she didn't realize this after waking up in the compartment.
Anna M. filed a criminal complaint with the federal police in Salzburg.
There are a lot of thefts on trains, explains a spokeswoman for the Austrian Federal Police in Salzburg.
However, one has never heard of such a form of anesthetic gas being used in Salzburg.
“But we follow up on every tip,” said the spokeswoman.
And the federal police in Munich have not yet heard of any such cases.
Just like the federal police station in Kassel.
(Ulrike Pflueger-Scherb)
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