Germany: Knife attack wounds local AfD politician

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Germany: ****** ******* wounds local AfD politician

A local candidate has been reportedly attacked in the ******* city of Mannheim, five days after the fatal stabbing of a police officer in the market square.

The man, described as a local election candidate for the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party, was left with cuts in the *******, ******* press agency DPA reported.

His party said the incident took place close to the market square on Tuesday night.

The local AfD association said its candidate had confronted a man tearing down election posters who then cut him with a ******. He was taken to hospital for treatment, it added.

Malte Kaufmann, an AfD politician and member of the Bundestag,

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of the ******* as Heinrich Koch, a candidate standing in the city’s council election, which is due to take place on 9 June – though officials have not confirmed this.

Police in Mannheim spoke only of a police operation, adding that they would give details of the ******* later on Wednesday. However, DPA said a suspect had been arrested.

The latest incident in Mannheim comes after an Afghan asylum seeker was detained on suspicion of

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a 29-year-old police officer and wounding five campaigners opposed to ******** Islam, who were preparing for a rally on Friday.

The ******** has sparked outrage in Germany, prompting the government to say it may allow deportations to Afghanistan.

The 25-year-old suspect in that ******* is said to have come to Germany as a ******** in 2013 and has since had two children. Deportations to Afghanistan were halted when the Taliban returned to power three years ago.

The ********* came as Germans prepare to vote in ********* Parliament elections, which will take place across the 27 members states of the EU.

The AfD is challenging the centre-left Social Democrats of Chancellor Olaf Scholz for second place in the vote, although the far-right party’s top candidates have been hit by

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“We are shocked and stunned,” Markus Frohnmaier, a top AfD official in the south-western state of Baden-Württemberg told ******* media in response to the latest incident.

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