The perpetrator and the victim were both Iraqis.
During a dispute on Christmas Eve in Nuremberg, a 33-year-old man was pushed in front of a oncoming train as it entered the central train station.
The victim was trapped on the train tracks underneath the train wagon and was critically injured. The man was rescued by the fire brigade and taken to the hospital.
The 32-year-old perpetrator fled the scene, but after evaluation of surveillance videos he was arrested in less than an hour and brought before a judge.
The reason for the dispute is still unclear, German daily Die Welt reported.
In July in Frankfurt, a 40-year-old Eritrean migrant allegedly pushed an eight-year-old boy and his mother in front of an approaching high-speed train. The boy was killed. The suspect named Habte Araya who illegally arrived in Switzerland in 2006, had been suffering from “psychological problems”.
At the time of the incident, he had been living in Switzerland legally.
In another attack, a 34-year-old woman died on 20 July in the Lower Rhine city of Voerde after a man, 28 years old, pushed her in front of an oncoming regional train.
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