Boy thrown under train trial

An Eritrean man goes on trial in Germany on Wednesday for fatally throwing a boy under a train during an episode of paranoid schizophrenia, in a case that stoked a heated immigration debate.

The man, identified by police as Habte Araya, 41, is accused of pushing the eight-year-old boy and his mother onto the tracks in an apparently random attack at Frankfurt's main station in July, 2019. The mother was able to roll off the tracks to avoid the oncoming InterCity Express train but the boy was killed instantly.

The suspect, who had entered Germany from Switzerland days earlier, also tried to push a 78-year-old woman onto the tracks but she managed to save herself.

AFP