A politician from the far-right party Alternative for Germany (AfD) has been attacked with a knife in the city of Mannheim, in the state of Baden-Württemberg, just a few days after the death of a police officer in a knife attack in this town during an event by the anti-Islamist movement Pax Europa.
The event took place on Tuesday night near the city’s market square, when the politician, Heinrich Koch, saw a person tearing up a sign of his party and, when approaching to reproach him for his actions, he was attacked with a knife, according to the AfD in Mannheim.
The far-right politician, whose identity has not been revealed, is hospitalized with minor injuries, while the attacker has been arrested, as reported by the German newspaper Die Welt.
The incident takes place just days after an attack against a member of Pax Europa, which is described as an organization that reports on dangers which raises the “growing diffusion and influence of political Islam”, in Mannheim’s market square, which left one officer dead and five others injured.
German Justice Minister Marco Buschmann has stated that there is “clear evidence”
over one “Islamist motivation” of the event.
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