A member of a German far-right party was stabbed and wounded in the southwestern city of Mannheim, German news agency BLID reported Wednesday, only days after a knife attack killed one police officer and left five other people injured in the same city.
The stabbing happened late Tuesday, reportedly near the same market square where the earlier attack took place on Friday.
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A candidate with the far-right Alternative for Germany, or AfD, reportedly caught somebody trying to tear down an election poster. When he confronted that person, he was attacked with a knife. The AfD politician, who was campaigning for local elections on Sunday, is still in a hospital with non-life-threatening cuts.
The AfD labeled the attack as an act of left-wing extremism. Markus Frohnmaier, the AfD state chairman, expressed shock and dismay over the incident.
On Friday, a 25-year-old Afghan man stabbed several members of a group that describes itself as opposing "political Islam." The group, Pax Europa, describes itself as an organization that informs the public about the dangers posed by the "increasing spread and influence of political Islam."
Michael Stürzenberger, an anti-Islamist activist who is one of the group's leading figures and has spoken at its events, was among those wounded. Another four members of the Pax Europa group were injured along with a police officer who tried to stop the attack. The 29-year-old officer died of his injuries on Sunday. The attacker is still in the hospital.
Germany said Tuesday it was considering allowing deportations to Afghanistan after an asylum seeker from the country killed a police officer and wounded five others in a knife attack. Deportations to Afghanistan have been stopped since the Taliban retook power in 2021.
