A freshly elected mayor was found injured in western Germany with multiple stab wounds, and her life is in danger, a security source tells Reuter, APA reports, citing The Times of Israel.
Bild newspaper reports that Iris Stalzer, a Social Democrat who was due to take office after being elected mayor of Herdecke in the Ruhr region a week ago, was found by her son.
The case raises memories of the 2019 murder of conservative local government president Walter Luebcke, a supporter of then-chancellor Angela Merkel’s refugee policy, who was shot dead by a far-right activist as he smoked a late-night cigarette on his terrace at home.
Local and regional authorities are not immediately available to comment.
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