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BERLIN: A municipal candidate for the far-right
Alternative for Germany party
was slashed with a
box cutter
in the German city of
Mannheim
, authorities said Wednesday. While police said the incident on Tuesday night did not appear to be politically motivated, it came four days after a
knife attack
on members of an
anti-Islam party
in the same city, which raised concerns about more violence in the prelude to Sunday’s vote in Germany for the
European Parliament
.
Tuesday’s attack occurred after
Heinrich Koch
, running for municipal office in Mannheim, noticed a man “taking down and slashing” AfD posters. After Koch confronted him, the man attacked Koch with a box cutter.
Koch was taken to a
hospital
for stitches but is expected to make a full recovery.
