Illegal acts committed. - AfD municipal election candidate assaulted with a knife in Mannheim.
In Mannheim, a potential AfD council member in the local polling was assaulted with a blade late on Tuesday. Revealed by the German Press Agency (dpa) on Wednesday, the guy was harmed. The assailant was apprehended. The case supposedly took place approximately at 10:45 pm. Mannheim's police officially announced in the morning that there was a law enforcement operation, though they'll furnish further details shortly.
The AfD district association relayed that the occurrence transpired near the marketplace in the district of Rheinau. A prospective AfD council member was said to have caught poster thieves red-handed. After confronting one individual, he was stabbed with a knife, as per the AfD. According to the AfD, three people were implicated; two successfully fled.
The AfD politician remains hospitalized but has only sustained wounds. The AfD declared it a strike by left-wing extremists - this couldn't be verified yet. "We're flabbergasted and horrified," stated the AfD state chair Markus Frohnmaier.
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The assault occurred in Baden-Württemberg's Mannheim, specifically near the marketplace in the Rheinau district. The incident involved a local AfD election candidate who confronted poster thieves. The incident escalated, leading to the council member being stabbed with a knife. Following the incident, the police in Mannheim launched an investigation and made an arrest. Despite the AfD labeling it as an act by left-wing extremists, the investigation is still ongoing in Germany.
