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AfD native council candidate attacked with knife in Mannheim

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AfD native council candidate attacked with knife in Mannheim

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There has been one other knife assault in Mannheim: This time it was an area AfD politician who caught somebody tearing down posters. Heinrich Koch escaped with cuts and the perpetrator was arrested.

IIn Mannheim, an AfD candidate for the native elections was attacked with a knife late on Tuesday night. The sufferer was Heinrich Koch, the AfD informed WELT. Koch was injured, the information company dpa realized. The perpetrator was arrested. The incident occurred at 10:45 p.m.

The Mannheim police solely formally confirmed this morning that there was a police operation, however that they would supply data within the morning. According to the AfD district affiliation, the incident occurred close to the market sq. within the Rheinau district. The AfD candidate had caught a poster tearer red-handed.

When he confronted the individual, he was attacked and injured with a knife. The AfD politician continues to be in hospital, however solely suffered cuts.

The AfD spoke of an assault by left-wing extremists – the knowledge has not but been formally confirmed. According to the AfD, a complete of three folks have been concerned, two managed to flee. In a video that the AfD handed on to the dpa and was apparently filmed by the injured AfD candidate himself, the filmmaker might be seen operating after a younger man throughout the market sq. and shouting “Stop! Stay where you are!” The younger man is carrying a number of AfD election posters below his arm and is believed to have a carpet knife in his hand. “Lie down immediately,” shouts the individual filming. A scuffle then ensues. The man might be seen swinging the knife, the remainder of the photographs are blurry.

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“We are shocked and dismayed,” mentioned AfD state chairman Markus Frohnmaier. The 59-year-old engineer Koch is in third place for the AfD within the native council elections on June 9.

Just final Friday, a deadly knife assault occurred in Mannheim. A 25-year-old Afghan attacked a number of folks at an occasion organized by the anti-Islam motion Pax Europa (BPE) within the metropolis middle. A police officer was critically injured by knife wounds and later died of his accidents in hospital.

https://www.welt.de/politik/deutschland/article251868828/Mannheim-AfD-Gemeinderatskandidat-mit-Messer-attackiert.html