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Man dies after gangland stabbing attack

German police have arrested seven men after a gangland fight left one man stabbed to death and his brother seriously injured in hospital.

Published: 26 December 2012 13:32 CET
Man dies after gangland stabbing attack
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Police described the fight in Esslingen, near Stuttgart, on Friday night as an attack by a biker-type gang of around 20 people. A 22-year-old man was killed after being stabbed several times, while his 21-year-old brother was seriously hurt and on Wednesday was still in hospital. Four others were seriously injured and five more slightly hurt.

A 23-year-old from the Esslingen area was arrested on Sunday while his 20-year-old brother reported to the police on the same evening after consulting a lawyer.

Two more men aged 21 and 23 were arrested on Monday. These four were on Wednesday being held in investigative custody and are expected to be charged with conspiracy to commit murder. Three other men were also arrested.

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Teenager turns self in after attack on German politician

A 17-year-old has turned himself in to police in Germany after an attack on a lawmaker that the country's leaders decried as a threat to democracy.

Published: 5 May 2024 12:52 CEST
Teenager turns self in after attack on German politician

The teenager reported to police in the eastern city of Dresden early Sunday morning and said he was “the perpetrator who had knocked down the SPD politician”, police said in a statement.

Matthias Ecke, 41, European parliament lawmaker for Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s Social Democrats (SPD), was set upon by four attackers as he put up EU election posters in Dresden on Friday night, according to police.

Ecke was “seriously injured” and required an operation after the attack, his party said.

Scholz on Saturday condemned the attack as a threat to democracy.

“We must never accept such acts of violence,” he said.

Ecke, who is head of the SPD’s European election list in the Saxony region, was just the latest political target to be attacked in Germany.

Police said a 28-year-old man putting up posters for the Greens had been “punched” and “kicked” earlier in the evening on the same Dresden street.

Last week two Greens deputies were abused while campaigning in Essen in western Germany and another was surrounded by dozens of demonstrators in her car in the east of the country.

According to provisional police figures, 2,790 crimes were committed against politicians in Germany in 2023, up from 1,806 the previous year, but less than the 2,840 recorded in 2021, when legislative elections took place.

A group of activists against the far right has called for demonstrations against the attack on Ecke in Dresden and Berlin on Sunday, Der Spiegel magazine said.

According to the Tagesspiegel newspaper, Interior Minister Nancy Faeser is planning to call a special conference with Germany’s regional interior ministers next week to address violence against politicians.

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