Photo Gallery Cold Blooded Murder in Munich
The issue of safety on public transport is at the center of a new political debate after a man was beaten to death in Munich while onlookers allegedly walked by without coming to his rescue.
Flowers were laid at the station where the 50-year-old was brutally beaten to death by two teenagers over the weekend. Police said that the 17- and 18-year-olds had been bullying a group of younger teenagers at a commuter rail station before following them onto a train. Business man Dominik B. intervened -- and the step proved to be his death sentence.
Solln train station in Munich. Police said on Monday that they had arrested a third suspect in the murder. Witnesses at the scene of crime said that they saw the third teenager hit the group of children twice before Dominik B. intervened.
Former German Development Minister Carl-Dieter Spranger has suggested the late Dominik B. should be awarded Germany's highest medal, the Federal Order of Merit, for showing extraordinary courage.
Konrad Freiberg, head of the German police union GdP, (pictured here back in 2006 sitting between Chancellor Angela Merkel and then-SPD chairman Kurt Beck) has called for caution when intervening in potentially violent situations, but he has said there is no alternative to moral courage.
