Attack in Dresden
“There was so much hate in her voice”: Greens describe attack on election workers
In Dresden, Green Party supporters were attacked while hanging election posters
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In Dresden, not only SPD politician Matthias Ecke was attacked, but also a Green Party team. An eyewitness describes the attack.
According to his companion, the Green Party election worker who was attacked in Dresden was beaten several times and kicked in the stomach and ribs while lying on the ground. “He suffered injuries, especially bruises,” reported Green Party activist Anne-Katrin Haubold on Sunday in “Spiegel”. According to her own statements, she was out with him on Friday evening shortly after 10 p.m. in the middle-class Striesen district to hang up election posters. The police assume that the same perpetrators were also responsible for the attack on the SPD MEP Matthias Ecke a short time later.
They had noticed the four men before because they were “uncomfortably loud,” said Haubold. One set up directly in front of her companion. “There was only five centimeters between the two noses. He asked: What did you do? My party friend replied: We put up a poster for the Greens. Then the group said: “Shit Greens!” And the attacker gave my colleague a punch in the face,” she said. The perpetrator then struck again and lashed out a third time, bringing the Green Party poster to the ground, where two of the men then kicked him. She was able to pull her colleague up and shouted for him to run away. The attackers then ran in the other direction.
Dresden attackers did not want to be recognized
They wore high-necked jackets and baseball caps pulled low over their faces. “They weren’t completely covered up. But they obviously didn’t want to be recognizable,” she said. Haubold did not want to clearly assign the perpetrators to the right-wing spectrum, even if that was obvious. “I don’t know who it was in the end,” she said. “There was so much hate in her voice. If you live in Dresden, you know that from the right-wing spectrum. Of course it could also be from the far left, of course. But that doesn’t make much sense.” She was unable to perceive any identifying features from the right spectrum in the darkness. “It seemed like a concerted effort with a script in the background: ‘Pick one,'” she reported.
In principle, nothing should change in her party’s election campaign, said Haubold. “We will continue to have stands at the weekly market and also hang up posters. However, only during the day and only in larger teams.”