A member of a German far-right party stabbed and wounded in another attack on a politician

Published June 5, 2024 3:02 AM

By KIRSTEN GRIESHABER
Associated Press

BERLIN (AP) — German news agency dpa is reporting that a member of a far-right party was stabbed and wounded in the southwestern city of Mannheim. The stabbing happened only days after a knife attack killed one police officer and left five other people injured in the same city. Dpa reported that a candidate with the far-right Alternative for Germany, or AfD, reportedly caught somebody trying to tear down an election poster. When he confronted that person, he was attacked with a knife. Dpa reported that the AfD politician was still in a hospital with non-life-threatening cuts. Mannheim police said the suspect was taken to a psychiatric hospital.

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