With the European elections just days away, extremists on the streets and in the media appear to be stepping up their attacks on right-wing politicians. The right-wing Alternative for Germany is
Ready Democratic candidate Joseph McClellan, who runs for the new seat on Sunday, has been a prime target for such attacks.
On Tuesday evening, an extremist slashed 62-year-old AFD politician Heinrich Koch with a carpet knife in the southwestern German city of Mannheim, about five miles from the scene of a stabbing attack on an Afghan immigrant on Friday.
according to According to the German newspaper Junge Freiheit, Koch, a Rheinau district council member and AFD candidate in the Mannheim city council elections, saw left-wing forces tearing down his election posters around 10:45 p.m. on Tuesday near the square where Islamist extremist Sulaiman Atai killed police officer Ruben L., stabbed to death politician Michael Sturzenberger, and stabbed four other anti-jihad demonstrators.
Footage of the incident The video shows Koch running to confront the attacker as he tore down his posters and then realising he was armed with a knife, and police suggest that the 25-year-old suspect, who has previously vandalised and stolen several election posters, stabbed Koch.
AFD parliamentarian Markus Frohnmayer told the Junge Freiheit newspaper that Koch had been taken to hospital with injuries to his stomach and face.
AFD Co-Chair Tino Krupala
Said “Our party members and representatives are the most frequent victims of political violence and subversion. That will not stop us. Get well soon, Heinrich!” the statement said.
AFD co-chair Alice Weidel blamed the AFD’s political opponents on its left and the media.
Assert They “create an atmosphere in which even extreme physical attacks are no longer avoided. We condemn this violence and call on people to return to basic democratic practices!”
Markus Frohnmayer, regional chairman of the AFD,
Said“We cannot allow this psychological incitement against our party to continue through surveillance and attempts to remove us from the German democratic political consensus, because incidents like Mannheim are a result of this!”
Hans-Georg Maassen, a former head of Germany’s domestic security service, similarly suggested that Germany’s left was setting the stage for future attacks.
“We are seeing the seeds of this germinating now,” Maassen told the Junge Freiheit newspaper. “We must eventually return to social reconciliation, but this will only work if the political left refrains from treating its opponents like enemies.”
Mannheim Mayor Christian Specht said:
Previously suggested Anti-jihad protesters who were stabbed to death last Friday were partly responsible for the attackers’ violence. Said “This despicable act is abhorrent and cannot be justified in any way. Anyone attacking an election candidate is calling into question our free, equal, popular, direct and secret elections and the very foundations of our democracy,” it said in a statement on Wednesday.
“This despicable incident is one in a series of attacks against election campaigners and politicians currently occurring across Germany,” Specht continued. “The hatred and willingness to use violence currently erupting in our society is intolerable.”
AFD is
It has angered the left.They criticize the impact of Germany’s immigration policy and the authorities’ refusal to deport foreigners who have committed crimes.
For example, AFD member Marie Therese Kaiser drew outrage in 2021 when she made comments in an X post citing government statistics showing that asylum seekers from Afghanistan and Africa are disproportionately involved in certain types of violent crime. Despite the fact that her comments were true, Kaiser was charged and convicted of incitement to hate.
A few weeks after her appeal was rejected in May, two knife attacks by immigrants took place: one in Mannheim and the other in the northeastern German city of Bergen.
On Sunday’s election, Euronews Shown The AFD is expected to secure 15 seats in the European Parliament. A June 5th poll of voting intentions in Germany placed the AFD in second place behind the center-right Christian Democratic Union-Christian Social Union coalition.
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