"I don't check tickets because I want to get home alive,"
"We have seen a steady increase in violence since 2015. The new normal for at least the last 10 years has been that it is virtually part of everyday life for employees to be verbally abused, insulted, threatened, or even physically attacked,"
"The crucial point, however, is not whether our society is becoming increasingly brutal, but rather what we have become accustomed to in terms of violence and misconduct over the last few years,"
A Deutsche Bahn conductor on a regional train near Kaiserslautern was attacked after asking a passenger without a valid ticket to leave and later died from a brain hemorrhage caused by blunt force trauma. The alleged perpetrator is in custody. Nearly 3,000 railway employees were attacked last year, and government data show an average of five physical assaults and four threats against railway staff every day. Some conductors avoid ticket checks out of safety concerns. Research indicates a steady rise in violence since 2015, with verbal abuse, threats and physical attacks becoming commonplace. Incidents increase when passengers are intoxicated, trains are overcrowded or delayed, or during major events.
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