Radical views or actions. - Scholz asserts that violence is never acceptable.
Scholz warned all wrongdoers, "Don't undervalue our capabilities. We're a democratic country, and we won't stand for such actions. We'll use every legal and just method available to confront you."
He mentioned the knife assault targeting an Islam-critical gathering in Mannheim, causing seven wounds, as well as the attack on the CDU Bundestag member Roderich Kiesewetter at a polling station in Aalen near Stuttgart. Scholz emphasized the police officer's critical condition, saying, "We pray that he can make it through this ordeal."