Bloody attack in the ICE: five injured in the event of a robbery in Straßkirchen!

Bloody attack in the ICE: five injured in the event of a robbery in Straßkirchen!

A dramatic incident has happened today in an ICE between Hamburg and Vienna. On July 3, 2025, around 2:00 p.m., the approximately 500 passengers of the train near Straßkirchen, Straubing-Bogen district, got great danger. A 20-year-old Syrian, who was on the train as a refugee with a residence permit in Austria, injured five people, including himself. Four other passengers, including a 51-year-old woman and her 15-year-old son from Syria, suffered minor injuries, as did a 24-year-old Syrian and a 38-year-old person unknown nationality.

The dramatic events took place when the attacker started with a hammer and an ax, according to the Bavarian Interior Minister Joachim Herrmann. Shocked fellow travelers overpowered the perpetrator, which led to an immediate emergency stop of the train. The police arrested the attacker, who was seriously injured, but fortunately did not float in mortal danger. So far, the attacker's motif remains inconsistent; Herrmann reported a conversation between this and the Syrian victims before the attack, but the exact background still needs to be determined.

memories of old incidents

The situation is frightening of a similar incident in November 2021. At that time, during a knife attack in an ICE from Regensburg to Nuremberg, numerous passengers were seriously injured. A 27-year-old Syrian stabbed passengers indiscriminately and was later classified as part of guilt due to his mental illnesses, including paranoid schizophrenia. This act also caused a sensation and made the security situation listen to rail traffic. Passengers were evacuated in one train at the time and train traffic between Regensburg and Nuremberg had to be diverted, according to the reporting from the Merkur .

The current investigations in this recent case could also take weeks or months, especially since there are still many questions open. The police showed through that it does not run out of a terrorist motif and there are no evidence of accomplices. The uncertainty about the background could lead to the fact that society has to think about such incidents for longer.

passengers and their relatives are often worried after such shocking experiences. The Bavarian state government is still under pressure to find a clear answer to how security can be guaranteed in public transport. Interior Minister Herrmann in particular gives a high priority of the question of the security precautions and possible prevention measures and suggests: "There is something." It remains to be seen which measures are made in response to these events.