Four perpetrators attacked and seriously injured Saxon EU representative Matthias Ecke (SPD) on Friday evening. On Sunday evening, a 17-year-old turned himself in to police over the attack.
The youngster is not in custody because it cannot be assumed that he will abscond, a spokeswoman for the State Criminal Investigation Department in Dresden said on Sunday. According to the LKA, the 17-year-old had not previously appeared to the police.
Previous attack on Green Party aides
The other unknown suspects are still being investigated, the report said. They are still being searched for. The police assume a political motive. Before the attack on the SPD politician, the group had already attacked a 28-year-old who was putting up election posters for the Greens.
Such attacks “threaten our democracy”, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD) warned on Saturday. “We must act against it together,” he emphasized in a post on
Source: Krone
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