German Greens Advocate “Women Only” Train Carriages
Increasing sexual violence on public transport prompts misdirected proposal from collapsing governing coalition partner.
Increasing sexual violence on public transport prompts misdirected proposal from collapsing governing coalition partner.
Paris metro operator RATP has announced it will create “safe spaces” for victims of sexual assault and gender-based violence as the Paris metro system remains plagued by sex attacks, theft, and acts of violence.
The idea has been germinating since last January’s Brokstedt tragedy, a mass stabbing on a train where a 33-year-old stateless Palestinian killed a 17-year-old girl and her 19-year-old boyfriend with a kitchen knife.
After Belgium, France, and Greece, England could be the next country hit by strikes.
Figures from a government report have shown that foreign nationals were responsible for 92% of thefts and nearly two-thirds of all sexual assaults carried out on the Paris regional public transportation system in 2020.
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