Police are searching for a man who brutally beat a ticket controller on a train through Magdeburg after he was caught without a ticket. The still unknown man was told by a ticket controller in Magdeburg to show his ticket, but instead beat the 55-year-old transport worker “to a pulp”, police said on Sunday. The man repeatedly punched the controller in the face, police report, and then kicked him in the head after he had fallen to the ground. Other passengers on the regional train tried to intervene, but were unable to prevent the perpetrator from fleeing. On Saturday in Stendal - also in Saxony-Anhalt - two visibly drunk fare-dodgers also caused trouble for federal police when officers tried to get them off a train.

Source: The Local May 15, 2017 14:37 UTC