A service and security staff of the Dutch Railways at the station. These employees are deployed to prevent unsafe situations. Photo ANP / Remko de Waal
Barely a week after assaulting a guard in Schagen there tonight again become a member of the NS victims of violence. He would “freak out” are gone when the conductor asked him for his identification, says a spokesman for the NS to news agency ANP.
The man, who was on the train direction Uitgeest, began thereon save the guard, but managed to grab the zwartrijder. When the train was stopped at Uitgeest put the police could keep the suspect and bring them to the office. The conductor has reported.
Employees of the NS lately regularly the target of violence. Thus, last week, a guard spat at and beaten near Schagen and a colleague of his was a week earlier assaulted on the train between Arnhem and Nijmegen.
As a result of the many incidents of recent times erupted in the House recently a discussion about arming railway employees, such as a baton or pepper spray. According to the minister responsible Wilma Mansveld (Infrastructure and Environment, PvdA) that would be a “difficult decision”. She fears that more weapons instead add to an escalation of violence
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