Oldenburg Central Station
Mask refuser bites railway employee in the leg
The federal police published this photo of the injury to the railway employee
© Federal Police
This working day ended for a railway employee in the hospital: he was bitten by a man who refused to wear a mask at the main station in Oldenburg.
This article first appeared on RTL.de.
A 50-year-old man who refused to wear a mask bit a DB security employee in the thigh on Wednesday evening at Oldenburg Central Station in Lower Saxony. The man had to be treated for the bite injury in a clinic, the police said.
At 9:20 p.m. on Wednesday evening, the 50-year-old is said to have been in Oldenburg Central Station without a mask despite being banned from entering the building. Although the man did not want to take the train, he did not want to leave the station when a train security patrol approached him, the police said in a statement.
Oldenburg Central Station: Man drops and bites
The mask refuser then reacted aggressively and was then accompanied by the railway employee to the exit, where the incident is said to have occurred: the 50-year-old reportedly dropped to the ground and then bit the employee in the thigh.
An officer from the Federal Police would then handcuff him and take him to the office. The bite left a bleeding wound in the man’s thigh. The victim required medical attention at a hospital, police said.
The federal police have initiated criminal proceedings against the 50-year-old for the bodily harm. Several public prosecutors were interested in the man’s current whereabouts, as the police write: “They had written out the man in twelve cases to determine his whereabouts”.
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