Attacker caught
Attack on AfD politician (38) in supermarket
There has been a physical attack on a politician in the German state of Saxony. An AfD member of the state parliament was beaten up while shopping in a supermarket.
The attack happened at around 1.15 p.m. in the Rewe supermarket in Unterer Kirchweg: "An initially unknown suspect punched him in the face and then went shopping," a police spokeswoman told the Bild newspaper.
Initially, there was talk of an attack on a "political office holder". Eventually, the Saxon AfD posted on the X platform that it was the state parliament member Mario Kumpf.
Attacker caught
Kumpf himself alerted the officers after the attack. Shortly afterwards, a 53-year-old German was apprehended. He was charged with assault. It is not known why the man struck. The AfD Saxony wrote on X of a "political motive".
Kumpf has been a member of the Saxon state parliament since 2019.
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