Utterly disgusting, similar to ISIS or the IRA where people think they are SO right that they are willing to kill people who disagree with their blinkered worldview
- Elected German politician Frank Magnitz attacked in the street
- Magnitz is MP and chairman for anti-immigrant Alternative for Germany (AfD)
- The party claims the assault on Magnitz was an assassination attempt
A German MP has been seriously injured in a 'politically motivated' gang attack in the north of the country.
Frank Magnitz, leader in Bremen of the anti-immigration populist party Alternative for Germany (AfD), was assaulted in the city centre on Monday afternoon.
The AfD party published a photo of Magnitz lying injured on a hospital bed, claiming three masked men had carried out the attack.
They hit him with a piece of wood until he was unconscious and then kicked him on the ground,' the party said in a statement, adding that a construction worker had intervened to stop the assault.
'Today is a dark day for democracy in Germany.'
Bremen Police said that 'given the victim's work, we believe that this is a politically motivated act.'
AfD leader Joerg Meuthen tweeted that Magnitz was 'beaten almost to death' in a 'cowardly and sickening' attack.
Johannes Kahrs, an MP from the Social Democrats, junior partners in the ruling coalition, said 'violence is never acceptable' and that 'extremism in any form is rubbish'. He wished Magnitz a quick recovery.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...ed-attack.html