{The teenager} reported to police in Dresden early Sunday morning and mentioned he was “the perpetrator who had knocked down the SPD politician,” the police mentioned in an announcement. The 17-year-old didn’t present any detailed data, in accordance with the media outlet Der Spiegel.
The SPD has blamed supporters of the far-right celebration Alliance for Germany (AfD) for the assault on Ecke. “Their supporters are actually fully disinhibited and apparently see us democrats as truthful sport,” the assertion on Saturday mentioned. Saxony is without doubt one of the AfD’s political strongholds.
On Saturday, the police had spoken of 4 suspects estimated to be between the ages of 17 and 20. The investigation into the opposite suspects is ongoing.
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Anti-far-right protests have been referred to as for Sunday in Berlin and Dresden.
“Democracy is threatened by this sort of act,” German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, additionally a member of the SPD, mentioned Saturday, talking a congress of European socialist events in Berlin. He mentioned such assaults outcome from “discourse, the ambiance created from pitting individuals towards one another.”
Ecke is barely essentially the most high-profile sufferer of violence. On Friday, a marketing campaign employee for the Greens, who was additionally placing up posters, was attacked by a gaggle of 4 individuals, in accordance with the police.
Final week, two Greens deputies have been abused whereas campaigning in Essen in western Germany and one other was surrounded by dozens of demonstrators in her automotive within the east of the nation.
In accordance with provisional police figures, 2,790 crimes have been dedicated towards politicians in Germany in 2023, up from 1,806 the earlier 12 months, however lower than the two,840 recorded in 2021, when legislative elections occurred.