Final week, Matthias Ecke, a politician with the center-left Social Democratic Get together (SPD) and member of European Parliament, was hanging marketing campaign posters for the upcoming European Union election within the jap German metropolis of Dresden when he was allegedly approached by a gaggle of 4 younger males and pummeled.
Ecke suffered fractures to his cheekbone and eye socket, amongst different accidents, and was hospitalized.
In the identical a part of Dresden that night, the group of youths additionally allegedly attacked a Greens campaigner. One of many attackers punched him twice within the face, and after the sufferer fell to the bottom, the attackers repeatedly kicked him, in line with witnesses.
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This previous Tuesday night in Dresden, native Greens candidate Yvonne Mosler was out with a tv crew placing up marketing campaign posters when a person pushed her apart, ripped down the posters, and a younger lady spat on her.
Extra assaults this week — together with one on the previous mayor of Berlin, SPD politician Franziska Giffey, assaulted in a public library by a person who struck her from behind on the pinnacle with a “bag crammed with exhausting contents,” in line with police — additional raised alarm throughout the nation.
“We’re experiencing an escalation of anti-democratic violence,” mentioned Nancy Faeser, Germany’s inside minister, additionally of the SPD.