A Green lawmaker within the German state of Lower Saxony was injured in an assault at a marketing campaign occasion on Saturday, the police and her occasion mentioned, including to a spate of violence in opposition to lawmakers of all events.
Police mentioned a person hit Marie Kollenrott a number of instances on her higher physique on the occasion in metropolis centre of Göttingen. Her accidents have been described as minor and situated on her arms.
Officers detained the suspected assailant, a 66-year-old man from Göttingen, near the scene of the incident. State safety has taken over the investigation, as is the protocol in such circumstances.
Kollenrott serves within the parliament of Lower Saxony, in north-western Germany.
“We condemn the assault in the strongest possible terms,” mentioned the state’s Green Party parliamentary group chief Anne Kura, denouncing it as “an attack on our democracy.”
“We are shocked, but we will not be intimidated,” she mentioned in an announcement
According to preliminary findings, the person made derogatory remarks concerning the Greens at an election marketing campaign stand in a pedestrian zone close to the Old Town Hall.
Police mentioned there was a short political dialogue with Kollenrott. The man then approached the politician and commenced punching her.
A sequence of assaults on politicians and marketing campaign staff within the run as much as June’s European elections have shocked Germany.
Franziska Giffey, a outstanding Berlin state minister and former mayor, who belongs to Scholz’s centre-left Social Democrats (SDP), was attacked whereas visiting a library within the German capital earlier this month.
Bundestag member Matthias Ecke, additionally from the SPD, was overwhelmed and hospitalized in Dresden at first of May. Green Party politician Yvonne Mosler was additionally insulted, threatened and spat at whereas placing up posters in Dresden a couple of days later.
Source: www.anews.com.tr
