Screening device for the interior of vehicles

Protection device (2) comprises flexible sheet-like structure (3, 4) arranged movably between compactly put-away rest position and extended functional portion and connected on the end side transversely to the direction of extension over its width to dimensionally stable profiled part. The structure has a sheet-like section extended over its width and is connected extensively and cohesively to a sheet-like section of an outer casing of the profiled part.