Brutal: Migrant pushes elderly woman to her death on train tracks

The migrant has committed similar crimes before, specifically singling out the elderly and children as "easy prey".

Athén, 2016. március 12. Egy migráns cigerettázik az athéni Victoria téren 2016. március 12-én. MTI Fotó: Balogh Zoltán Fotó: Balogh Zoltán

In 2017, a group of Syrian and Libyan youths attacked two people at the Kreuzberg train station in the German capital and pushed one of them onto the tracks. The 26-year-old man managed to climb back onto the platform, averting the incoming train. Also in 2017, a 16-year-old Moroccan migrant robbed a 34-year-old woman and pushed her onto the train tracks. The assailant had previously been in police custody for assault. A few months later, a Moroccan and a Libyan asylum seeker pushed a father onto the rails and prevented him from getting up and back onto the platform. The man owes his life to the train driver’s swift reaction and emergency brakes, as he managed to stop the train a few metres away, avoiding the tragedy.

But there have also been fatal attacks. In 2019, a gang of migrants pushed three German youths in front of a train, two of whom did not survive the tragedy. Then, in Voerde, a 28-year-old man from Kosovo pushed a 34-year-old woman in front of a train passing through the station, with no chance of survival. The perpetrator with an extensive criminal record for violence was already known to the authorities.

V4NA's article emphasizes that instead of deportation, sending criminal migrants to mental asylum citing a need for psychiatric treatment is also common practice in Western Europe. If lawyers can can prove that mental illness was a factor in an aggressive radical offender’s crime, then the original sentence can be significantly reduced. This means that many migrants do not have to be deported, and authorities are also able to calm, or soften the public outrage.

There have been a number of attacks and murders in the West committed by radical Islamists who later used mental illness to cover up their crimes.

This is how the 31-year-old migrant who stabbed five people to death on a regional train near Aachen, Germany, has managed to avoid a severe punishment. It was only by luck that one of the passengers and an off-duty policeman succeeded in disarming the Iraqi migrant. Authorities used the same method to prevent a young Somali man – who stabbed three women to death in a shopping mall in Wurzburg in the summer of 2021 – from receiving a severe sentence. Although witnesses testified that the murderous migrant kept praising Allah during his attack, prosecutors said this was not enough evidence that the migrant had a religious motive.

France is outdoing its neighbor in whitewashing Muslim radicals.

n 2017, a Muslim man murdered a 66-year-old director of an Orthodox Jewish nursery. The victim, Sarah Halim, was woken from her sleep when the attacker broke into her 3rd-floor apartment in the middle of the night. She was violently beaten, while her assailant kept crying Allah-u Akbar, then dragged her to the window and threw her out, while she was begging for her life. 

Authorities have repeatedly noted that the Muslim attacker may have been suffering from a so-called “psychotic disorder” as a result of smoking, and they have placed him under specialist treatment. The incident has sparked a huge wave of protests in France.

Mohamed Salmene Lahouaiej-Bouhlel plowed his truck into a crowd celebrating Bastille Day in Nice back in 2016. The attack claimed 86 lives and injured hundreds more. After the incident, his family and the media have argued that the man was mentally ill. The NBC television network claimed that the Nice attacker was not a jihadist, even though the Islamic State terrorist organisation had claimed responsibility for the mass murder.

Cover photo: A migrant smokes a cigarette in Athens' Victoria Square on 12 March 2016 (Photo: MTI/Zoltan Balogh)