Bonn / Siegburg - spit pöbeln, rampage: young people out of hand in the bus. Just last Sunday night, forcing one hooligans SWB driver line 550 for an emergency stop in Niederkassel.
One wanted him then steal the cash register. Now the response of the police: Bus sheriffs to keep order. We will not tolerate criminal offenses and no longer. "The Siegburg police spokesman Mark Grommes said the riot brothers in the struggle.
The vigilantes herald an even closer cooperation with the rsvg (Rhein-Sieg transport company). Key point: Officials in uniform will be strengthened ride in the buses. That should discourage chaotic.
The problem group: adolescents and young adults who are often on weekends due to alcohol. "There is always vandalism, including cases of physical injuries occur," says Grommes from the experience of the police.
The affected bus driver Mohammed G. (50, name changed) came in a report already EXPRESS speak out. Dramatically, he described the states on the bus: "It's smoked and gekifft. One inspector was even beaten up. "
For rsvg-manager Frank Wiedemann is Niederkassel - and there, especially the northern districts - a focal point. "There we observe that the threshold drops to violence."
Particularly hard hit and soon hopefully, often with police officers on board: the line 501 and the 550, the SWB of rsvg and operated alternately.
The success of cooperation depends largely on the response of each driver. The SWB employees, who last Sunday shot at with small beads, abused, and was then robbed of almost responded correctly: He pressed the emergency call, after which the control station, the police alerted.
Thanks to his physical description, the police were able to arrest the main culprits from the howling clique. He has just turned 17 years old. Sunday night he had drunk too much.
