The male is being hold in inquisitive custody, broadcaster n-tv reported on Tuesday.
He is indicted of carrying been dreaming by video games on his mobile phone during a time of a crash, that saw dual internal trains hit head-on along a single-file widen of lane outward Bad Aibling, southeast of Munich.
Official investigations have found that the controller done several “tragic” mistakes which led to a disaster.
He initial authorised both trains to entrance a single-track line, and afterwards when he satisfied his error, he pushed a wrong symbol and alerted other controllers.
His second vigilance did go to a right sight drivers, though officials pronounced it was by afterwards too late.
After a trains rammed into one another during high speed, a final fee stood during 11 people killed and dozens severely injured.
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Article source: http://www.thelocal.de/20160412/police-arrest-controller-over-bavaria-train-crash