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CDU politician Kiesewetter attacked and slightly injured during election campaign

CDU politician Roderich Kiesewetter

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Another attack on a politician: CDU member of the Bundestag Roderich Kiesewetter was slightly injured during an election campaign event. The alleged perpetrator is known to him and the police.

The Bundestag member Roderich Kiesewetter was attacked by a man at a CDU election stand in Aalen, east of Stuttgart, on Saturday and was slightly injured. The police reported this. The man pushed and hit him. Kiesewetter suffered minor injuries. He was not given medical treatment at the scene.

The alleged perpetrator fled. The police measures are still ongoing, the spokesman said. However, the man is known to the police. The “Schwäbische Post” was the first to report on this. According to the newspaper, the man is a candidate for the Aalen local council from a party close to the lateral thinkers movement.

Kiesewetter may refrain from filing a complaint

Kiesewetter told the “Schwäbische Post” that he had been verbally attacked. Then he had been jostled. “I didn’t know who the person was. When I told him to stop, he tore the roof off the campaign stand.” He then wanted to take a picture of the man and ran after him. “When he saw that, he hit me and pushed me into a raised bed and also gave me abrasions.”

Shortly afterwards, the police came and he offered to drop the charges if the person in question apologized. Now, CDU security expert Kiesewetter says he wants to wait and see whether the police can get the man to apologize.