This is one of those unique Bahn (railway) stories.
Yesterday, onboard a regional train going from Lüneburg (Lower Saxony, the state in the far north of Germany) to Hamburg....normally a 30-minute ride....problems occurred.
What can be said via the Police (via N-TV reporting this morning)....a ticket-audit agent was onboard and immediately upon leaving the station....had issues with young 'kids' onboard. Of course....NO tickets in their possession, and refusing to be cooperative.
The group that the kids were part of? Kurdish youth movement (out of Turkey). Numbers? Eighty of them.
They rode without tickets and refused to participate with the request of the audit-guy.
About six to eight minutes out of the first station....the audit-guy has called the police, and they are arriving in significant numbers at the Bardowick station. All total? 200 police officers, with emergency personnel.
Charges? Oh yeah....just the 60-Euro situation on the missing ticket is the least of their problems. Some were charged with resisting the police, and some with assault. A dozen of the 'kids' were also noted without any visa.....which means they have to explain what they are doing in Germany, and this will trigger some home visit, with the parents now explaining their situation in Germany.
Various members of the group are also noted by the police as being travelers on some circuit.....for demonstrations around Germany....to stir up emotions for the Kurdish cause.
Once they pulled into Bardowick and the engineer cut the exit-door power....they probably started to realize the impending mess.
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