After brutal attack on the SPD MEP Matthias Ecke In Dresden, a young person turned himself in to the police. At around 1:00 a.m. on Sunday, a 17-year-old German teenager reported to the Dresden-Süd police station and stated that that he was the perpetrator who struck down the SPD politician. The Saxon State Security announced this on Sunday.
The young person has not yet appeared to the police. He is not in custody because it cannot be assumed that he will go into hiding, said a spokeswoman for the State Criminal Police Office. Further investigations would show whether the 17-year-old’s statement was correct.
The three other suspects remain unknown. The investigation is ongoing. This was taken over by the state police. Saxony’s Interior Minister Armin Schuster (CDU) said: “We will continue the investigation meticulously and keep the pressure high.” He could also “only encourage the other perpetrators to report to the police.” We will not tolerate such a “brutal attack on election workers and politicians, but also on the foundations of our democracy and the conduct of free elections,” emphasized Schuster.
The SPD’s top candidate for the European elections, Matthias Ecke, was was attacked and seriously injured by four perpetrators while posting posters in Dresden on Friday. He has been in hospital ever since and needs surgery. The incident caused outrage across party lines.
According to the SPD Saxony, there were also Attempts at intimidation, destruction of posters and insults also occurred with other poster teams.
According to police, the same group was believed to be nearby shortly before a 28-year-old Green Party campaign worker was attacked and injured. According to police information on Saturday, the four young men are estimated to be between 17 and 20 years old. According to witnesses, they were dressed in dark clothing, a police spokesman said. A witness assigned her to the right-wing spectrum.
An AfD election campaign stand was also attacked in Dresden on Saturday. Two 23-year-old women and a 28-year-old man suddenly attacked a party information stand in the Outer Neustadt on Saturday afternoon and damaged displays, posters and a table, the police announced on Sunday. The 54-year-old operator of the stand on the corner of Königsbrücker Straße and Bischofsweg was therefore not injured. The police identified the suspects according to information from witnesses. The state security agency has taken over the investigation into property damage.
It was only on Friday an attack on two Green Party politicians in Essen, North Rhine-Westphalia became known – to the Bundestag member Kai Gehring and the third mayor of Essen, Rolf Fliß. Fliß was hit in the face and slightly injured in the incident on Thursday evening. (Tsp, AFP, dpa)