Berlin senator and former mayor of the city, Franziska Giffay, has become the latest victim in a series of attacks on German politicians.
A man hit her from behind with a heavy object inside a local library, according to a police statement today.
Gifai, local government finance minister and member of the chancellor’s Social Democratic Party Olaf Solzwas slightly injured in the attack, police and the local district attorney’s office said.
Attack on the former mayor of Berlin
The release states that a man hit her in the head and neck with a bag containing something hard and then ran away. The statement adds that Gifai was taken to the hospital for a short time to treat the pain.
The incident follows calls for greater police protection of politicians in Germany after a series of verbal and physical attacks with victims of high-ranking politicians.
According to iefimerida, four teenagers are being questioned after a German MEP was beaten and hospitalized while he was putting up campaign posters in Dresden, eastern Germany.
Prominent members of the Greens, the party in coalition with Solz’s Social Democrats at the federal level, have also faced angry protests this year as Germany holds a series of local elections amid growing support for the far right.
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