Antje Kapek, spokeswoman for transport policy of the Green Party in the Berlin Senate, has said she wanted separate carriages for female passengers in reaction to an increasing number of sexual assaults. In the past decade, sexual offences in local public transport rose with 260 per cent.
Antje Kapek, spokeswoman for transport policy of the Green Party in the Berlin Senate, has said she wanted separate carriages for female passengers in reaction to an increasing number of sexual assaults.
In the past decade, sexual offences in local public transport rose with 260 per cent, daily newspaper Bild reported on November 13.
There were 391 such offences in 2023 alone, or more than one a day, 89 per cent of the victims were female and 90 per cent of the perpetrators were male.