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The attack on the SPD’s Saxon European election candidate in Dresden sparks horror in politics. Scholz, Faeser and Lindner react clearly.
Dresden – The attack on the Saxon SPD leading candidate in the European elections, Matthias Ecke, is causing clear reactions from politicians. Accordingly, the SPD man was attacked and seriously injured while posting posters in Dresden on Friday evening. The SPD Saxony reported this in a press release on Saturday. The EU-MP was taken to hospital as a result of the attack and requires surgery. Corner is running for office European elections in June in 10th place on the SPD list.
And yet the attack on Ecke is by no means an isolated incident. After all, it was only on Thursday (May 2nd) that a similar attack occurred on a Green Party politician in Essen when he was attacked while out for a walk. In Saxony alone there have been 112 politically motivated crimes in connection with elections since the beginning of the year. Figures that Saxony’s state interior minister also contributed Mirror online startle. “The intensity with which the attacks are currently increasing is absolutely worrying.” According to the CDU politician, the latest attacks are nothing other than “attacks on the core of our democracy.”
Attack on Matthias Ecke: Saxony’s SPD leading candidate for the European elections seriously injured
According to the Dresden police, the attack on Ecke is said to have occurred around 10:30 p.m. in the Striesen district. Four unknown people are said to have approached the SPD politician in the dark when the Saxon top candidate was hanging up election posters for the upcoming European elections. According to previous findings, the attackers beat him so violently that he was taken to hospital with serious injuries and had to be operated on that evening.
Due to the frightening brutality after the attack on Ecke, the reactions to the attack against the SPD man are also clear and clear. Among other things, Federal Interior Minister Nancy Faeser (SPD) strongly condemned the incident and announced tough action by the constitutional state. In a statement on Saturday (May 4th) she said: “If a politically motivated attack on MEP Matthias Ecke is confirmed a few weeks before the European elections, then this serious act of violence is also a serious attack on democracy,” quotes the dpa the Interior Minister. “We are experiencing a new dimension of anti-democratic violence here.”
Reactions to the attack against SPD top candidate Ecke in Dresden: Faeser and Lindner comment
Faeser also warned of a “new dimension of anti-democratic violence”. EU Parliament President Roberta Metsola was also “horrified by the vicious attack,” while FDP leader Christian Lindner expressed “the full solidarity of all democrats” to the attacked Ecke after the attack on him in Dresden.
And Lars Klingbeil was also shocked by the attack. “We are all deeply shocked by the news that Matthias Ecke was attacked, that he is now in hospital and that he needs surgery. For me this is a new quality,” said the SPD leader tagesschau.de. Saxony’s state economics minister, Martin Dulig, found particularly clear words. “If storm troops move through Saxony again and people are intimidated, fear and hatred are stirred up, then there must be a clear stop sign,” explained von Ecke’s party friend.
Chancellor Scholz reacts to attack by SPD politician Ecke in Dresden – “don’t shrug your shoulders”
Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD) also made people sit up and take notice with clear words about the attack on SPD politician Matthias Ecke. At a congress of the Social Democratic Party of Europe and the SPD in Berlin, Scholz said: “I want to say at the same time that we must never accept such acts of violence, that we must not shrug our shoulders when it happens here and there.” From attacks on According to Scholz, democracy is being threatened by politicians.
In connection with the attack on Saxony’s top candidate in the European elections, the Chancellor also emphasized the importance of “speeches that are given, with moods that are created,” he is quoted as saying AFP. This is an attempt to turn people against each other. In his speech, Scholz called for people to oppose these tendencies. “We have to stand together against this. Every case must be investigated in detail,” said the Chancellor.
Attack on the corner in Dresden was probably not the only attack that evening
As brutal as the attack on Matthias Ecke was. Apparently the attack on the SPD man was not the only one on Schandauer Strasse on Friday evening in Dresden. According to the police, another incident occurred just a few minutes beforehand. Accordingly, unknown people had also attacked two members of the Green Party on the same street, who were also hanging up election posters.
The state security agency responsible for political crimes is currently convinced that it was probably the same four unknown people who hit SPD man Ecke a short time later. The State Criminal Police Office’s “Violent Crimes Task Force” has now taken over the investigation into both cases due to dangerous bodily harm.
Attack on the SPD’s top candidate for the European elections in Dresden: Four masked people from the “right-wing spectrum”
According to the police, the suspected perpetrators, four men dressed in black and apparently masked, are young people between 17 and 20 years old from the “right-wing spectrum”. The Saxon SPD chairmen Henning Homann and Kathrin Michel characterize their approach as “the means of fascists”. The case shows: “The seeds that AfD and other right-wing extremists have sown is working.”
In the Ecke case, this meant that the SPD man was beaten on the street until he was hospitalized and left seriously injured. “The attacked person was kicked in the stomach while he was already on the ground,” said Green Party district chairman Klemens Schneider, according to Mirror online.
Klingbeil calls for “unambiguous response from the constitutional state” after the attack in Dresden
Therefore, SPD leader Klingbeil made it clear that the attack in Dresden “must now be solved quickly”: “Those who are responsible for this attack must be held accountable. We must now make it very clear that everyone who is on the move for democracy will be protected.”
What is needed is “a clear, unambiguous response from the constitutional state,” Klingbeil continued tagesschau.de. “Consistent action must be taken against the enemies of democracy”.
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