The federal police are investigating young people who are said to have stopped train traffic on the ICE high-speed route in Grabow in West Mecklenburg on Sunday. They are accused of dangerous intervention in rail traffic and property damage, as a spokesman for the federal police said on Monday in Rostock. The boys, aged 13 to 15, are said to have thrown a jacket from a bridge onto the high-voltage line of the Berlin-Hamburg railway line. “This is life-threatening nonsense,” said the police spokesman.
The line has a voltage of 15,000 volts and supplies the railway with traction current. A pantograph on a train between Berlin and Hamburg was blocked and the train stopped. The railway stopped running trains. In total, twelve trains were delayed by more than one and a half hours as a result of the incident.
When the jacket got caught, the children are said to have tried to throw it off the line with stones. Damage was caused to a weather shelter, among other things. The group was placed nearby and handed over to their guardians.
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