A member of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party was stabbed in the southwestern German city of Mannheim, German news agency DPA reported on Wednesday.
The knife attack on an AfD member took place on Tuesday evening near the same square where another knife attack on Friday killed a police officer and injured five others.
The DPA said that the AfD candidate caught someone trying to tear up an election poster. When the politician confronted the man, he was attacked with a knife.
The German news agency reported that the AfD politician was still in hospital due to the cuts he suffered, but they were not life-threatening.
The candidate, who campaigned in Sunday’s local elections in Baden-Wuerttemberg, where Mannheim is located, was not identified by authorities. The attacker was detained, DPA reports.
“We are shocked and alarmed,” local AfD leader Markus Frohnmayer told the German news agency.
According to DPA, Mannheim police confirmed that the incident took place on Tuesday evening and said they would release more details later.
On Friday, a 25-year-old Afghan man stabbed several members of a group that calls itself opponents of “political Islam.” The Pax Europa group bills itself as an organization that informs the public about the dangers associated with the “growing spread and influence of political Islam.”
Among the wounded was Michael Stürzenberger, an anti-Islam activist and one of the group’s leading figures. The attacker remains in hospital.
Tuesday’s attack is the latest in a series of attacks against politicians in the country, raising concerns about rising political violence in Germany.
Author: Lusa
Source: CM Jornal
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