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Almost Every Day an Attack on ÖBB Employees

Summary by Kronen Zeitung
After a deadly attack on a train attendant in Germany as well as frightening incidents, a parliamentary inquiry reveals for the first time the number of violent attacks on railway personnel. Shocking: Almost every day an ÖBB employee is assaulted physically. For many employees of the Federal Railways, insults, threats and physical attacks have been part of everyday life for many years. The latter are now the first official figures: exactly 1834 …

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After a deadly attack on a train attendant in Germany as well as frightening incidents, a parliamentary inquiry reveals for the first time the number of violent attacks on railway personnel. Shocking: Almost every day an ÖBB employee is assaulted physically. For many employees of the Federal Railways, insults, threats and physical attacks have been part of everyday life for many years. The latter are now the first official figures: exactly 1834 …

·Vienna, Austria
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In the years 2020 to 2025 there were a total of 1,834 attacks on employees of the ÖBB. This is evident from the answer to a parliamentary request from the FPÖ.

·Vienna, Austria
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FPÖ Secretary General and Transport Spokesperson, MP Christian Hafenecker, MA, has submitted two parliamentary inquiries regarding violence against employees of the Austrian Federal Railways (ÖBB). The inquiry was prompted by the response to inquiry 5582/AB from Infrastructure Minister Peter Hanke, which revealed a total of 1,834 attacks on ÖBB personnel between 2020 and 2025 – 459 of which resulted in injury. Nearly half of the attacks on secur…

"We want to know what is happening on our routes" FPÖ Niederösterreich Landesparteiobmann LH deputy Udo Landbauer demands full transparency from the federal government about the violence in rail traffic. The background is 1,834 attacks on ÖBB personnel between 2020 and 2025, which SPÖ infrastructure minister Peter Hanke had to admit at a request of the liberals. A breakdown by federal states [...] The article FPÖ-Landbauer: "Lower Austria's comm…

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TOP News Österreich - Nachrichten aus Österreich und der ganzen Welt broke the news on Wednesday, July 29, 2026.
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