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Following the attack on SPD MEP Matthias Ecke, an AfD campaign stand has been vandalized in Dresden. The police apprehended the suspects following information from witnesses. State security has taken over the investigation into damage to property.

Two 23-year-old women and a 28-year-old man attacked a party information stand in the Outer Neustadt district on Saturday afternoon and damaged stands, posters and a table, police said on Sunday. The 54-year-old operator of the stand was not injured.

According to the police, a group of 20 youths also damaged 21 AfD, FDP, CDU and Linke election posters in the Striesen district on Sunday night, apparently indiscriminately.

Incidents also in Leipzig
A witness called the police, who caught a 17-year-old in the act of destroying a Left Party poster in Schandauer Straße - where MEP Ecke and a Green Party campaign worker were attacked on Friday evening.

Election posters for various parties were also damaged in Leipzig, according to the police. In the Marienbrunn district, unknown persons removed around 50 posters from their mountings on Saturday and tore them up or burned some of them. In the Neulindenau district, two posters attached to a street lamp were burned. Two posters were also removed in Taucha (district of North Saxony).