Last Saturday, half a day after the Saxon SPD’s leading candidate for the European elections, Martin Ecke, was brutally beaten in Dresden, a man showed up at a Left information stand in Karlsruhe. Their EU politician Martin Schirdewan had announced his presence there. The man wanted to know what time the top candidate was coming, says the Left’s district spokesman, Michel Brandt. When he was told the time, he simply replied: “Okay, then I’ll just get my machete.”
After attacks on Ecke, Giffey and Co.: How politicians are protected – politics
