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Unknown people apparently prepared an SPD election poster. A politician gets injured. Now the state security is investigating.
Hamm – Attacks on election workers and politicians have recently increased in Germany. In the Hamm district of Hamburg, an SPD politician was injured on Sunday morning while putting up a damaged election poster. A razor blade was attached to the back with packing tape, which the unsuspecting man reached into. The state security agency is investigating serious bodily harm.
SPD election poster in Hamburg apparently prepared with a razor blade
The Hamburg SPD politician Olcay Aydik is running in Hamburg-Hamm and put up torn down posters like this for the district elections on June 9th Hamburger Abendblatt reported. “When I touched one of the posters, my hand slightly reached the back,” the lawyer told the newspaper. Suddenly he felt pain and he was bleeding profusely. He looked closely and spotted the razor blade. It was “pure coincidence” that he “only touched the blade lightly and didn’t fully grasp it,” the politician continued.
The 26-year-old also commented on the incident on his Instagram channel. “Last night, unknown people destroyed a number of posters for the SPD, Greens, FDP and CDU in Hamm,” quoted t online from the politician’s Instagram story. “Sharp traps were left behind”. He put up the posters again – and not just those of the SPD. Like the police dpa announced that Aydik had suffered a cut on the back of his hand and his middle finger. The state security agency is investigating suspicion of serious bodily harm, said a police spokesman.
Horror in politics: “What the hell is wrong with people?”
The President of the Hamburg Citizenship, Carola Veit (SPD), was horrified by the incident. Anyone who only thinks of violence as a means in political debate, whether against people or things, is leaving the ground of democracy, the politician wrote on Instagram. “What the hell is wrong with people who set election posters on fire or stick them with razor blades so that candidates and politicians get injured?” Veit asked.
The attack on Matthias Ecke, the SPD’s top candidate for the European elections, made headlines across the country. The politician was knocked down and seriously injured in Dresden around two weeks ago. Ecke was hanging up election posters at the time of the attack. This is not an isolated case: election workers and politicians have increasingly been attacked in recent weeks. The attacks and threats were directed against politicians from the SPD, the Greens and the AfD.
Bundestag President Bärbel Bas (SPD) called for consistent action to protect democracy. On Thursday, at the request of the coalition factions FDP, Greens and SPD, there will be a current hour in the Bundestag on the topic “Threat to our democracy – violence against volunteers, politics and emergency services” instead of.
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