Overview
- Shortly after midnight before Christmas Eve, the man walked from platform 25 across the tracks to the platform 5 area at Munich Hauptbahnhof.
- A train driver alerted a nearby federal police patrol and the dispatcher issued an emergency-stop order for all trains in the station area.
- Two incoming regional trains, identified as 4871 and 9464, conducted emergency braking to avoid danger.
- Authorities reported no passenger injuries, and eleven additional services faced brief delays of about six minutes.
- Police recorded a breath-alcohol reading of 2.1 per mille and opened a probe for dangerous interference with rail traffic; the man is a Ukrainian national who entered Germany on December 11 and has no prior police record.