Dutch train staff to halt traffic for 3 minutes over rise in attacks
Apr 16, 2024
Amsterdam [Netherlands], April 16: Railway workers in the Netherlands are planning to halt train traffic for three minutes on Saturday evening to protest a rise in violence against staff on trains.
"We are reaching the limits of what we can do. We need help from the government. It can't go on like this," said the director of Dutch Railways (NS), Wouter Koolmees, in Utrecht on Monday.
"My colleagues work every day to get over a million travellers to their destination. It's madness what they have to deal with every day. Society is hardening," said Koolmees. The protest action was triggered by an attack by a group of young people on train staff at the weekend. In the incident on Saturday, a train attendant was pushed, punched and knocked down the stairs of a double-decker train. (DPA)
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