Sexual assaults explode on Berlin’s public transport
According to a German newspaper, Berlin’s police registered almost twice as many cases of sexual assault and harassment as last year.
Published: February 7, 2018, 3:55 pm
At least 295 reports were made to the police of the German capital in 2017, almost twice the number of 2016, which was 156, the tabloid Bild reported.
The newspaper says the trend continued this year, as there were already eleven sexual offences registered within two weeks. It gave examples of incidents from the start of the year, in which five women became victims of sexual offenses within six days.
The cases include men exposing themselves to women as well as men touching women in a improper way.
On January 13, a migrant harrassed a female passenger on the S-Bahn between Ostkreuz and Treptower Park. When she fought back, she was hit in the face with the fist by her attacker.
Two 18-year-olds are traveling on the ICE 948 on January 16, when a migrant masturbated in front of them, in yet another case. He was arrested in Potsdam.
On 18 January, a migrant (33) exposed himself in front of a woman between the stations Tiergarten and Zoologischer Garten and also on the same day, a migrant (40) sat next to a woman (24) in the S3, shoving his hand under her skirt.
According to the Berlin police, exactly 139 more sexual offenses were reported on buses, subways and trams in 2017 than in 2016.
One explanation for the increase is that in November 2016, sexual criminal law was tightened. Since then, verbal attacks – depending on type, duration and intensity – may also be recorded as sexual offenses.
On Thursday, two women were harassed by men in Berlin’s S-Bahn. In both cases, the police caught the perpetrators.
“The figures do not constitute a conclusive data basis for all sexual offenses on public transport, as criminal charges, for example, are sometimes handled by federal police without the involvement of the Berlin police or the prosecutor,” said police spokesman Winfrid Wenzel.
The Brandenburg police could issue no figures on recorded sexual offenses around specific public transport lines or at railway stations. The reason is that they do not record information on the crime scene.
This news comes in the wake of the alarming sexual assault statistics from Paris’ public transport. A study found that Paris had the highest number of incidents by far: seven times higher than in the rest of the country.
The study done by France’s national crime agency, found that more than 220 000 women were groped, kissed and sexually assaulted on French public transport over a two-year period.
The crime agency called the total number of incidents of the 2015-2016 study, a “conservative estimate”.
“Although the public mostly focuses on domestic violence, sexual violence committed on the street, on public transport or in other public places is just as serious, and merits more attention,” the report stated.
An earlier study, conducted by the National Observatory of Crime and Criminal Justice (ONDRP), showed that some 267 000 people were sexually harassed on French public transport between the years 2014 and 2015. At least 85 percent of them were women and incidents included kissing, groping, flashing and even rape.
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