Staff of NS and ProRail were present at the hearing in the court of Almelo. Photo Reuters / Vincent Jannink
Again a train conductor was abused, this time in the train from Utrecht to Amsterdam. The train originated in the early morning at the height of Abcoude a struggle between four boys and the conductor, police reported.
The fight moved when the train stopped at the station to the station platform. The four unknown perpetrators worked the conductor to the ground and beat him. A passenger who wanted to help the railway employee, also received blows. What was the reason and how it both victims are far, the police can not say.
The boys are on the track ran off in the direction of Amsterdam. The police include a helicopter and a police dog searched for the boys. The area between Abcoude and Amsterdam Southeast is thereby combed, but the boys have not been found. The police camera footage and calling people who took pictures to share with the police.
Earlier this week, two men in December, a conductor and a driver of NS mistreated at the station in Almelo condemned to jail. The two men, from Rijssen and Schiedam, fell last December a troublesome girl on the platform in Rijssen. When the conductor spoke to them then, they were words with him. At the station in Almelo they stepped on the conductor off and beat them to him. The driver shot him to help, but also received blows. Both were to end up with head injuries to the hospital.
By the abuse flared the debate about the safety of railway staff considerably. The NS and the unions called on the government to take additional measures against the increasing aggression against rail employees. Secretary Mansfield of Infrastructure and the Environment then decided among other things that the gates at stations rather than closing planned that there will be a station agent at the twenty largest stations and more CCTV.
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