Overview
- The Interior Ministry’s general order from Alexander Dobrindt authorizes the Bundespolizei to search any person for weapons at train stations nationwide without individualized suspicion.
- In Hamburg, federal and state police checked 283 people around Berliner Tor, seizing an irritant spray device, four knives and a baton, issuing 14 dispersal orders and making four wanted-person hits, two of which led to arrests.
- Officers in the Hamburg action opened 25 criminal cases, including for drug possession, fraud and residency-law violations, while transit security conducted over 7,000 fare checks and reported about 340 fare evaders.
- A three-week series of checks in Berlin resulted in 124 knives, 73 irritant sprays and 13 bludgeoning weapons being seized, with additional finds reported to include pistols, alongside 329 uncovered offences and 25 executed arrest warrants.
- Government data cited to justify the measures recorded 14,047 violent offences and 1,076 sexual offences at stations from January through June, as authorities also pledge more police presence and passenger advocates press for cleaner, safer stations.