Update: German politician left seriously injured following attack | DW News

A leading politician from Germany's Social Democrats has been attacked while campaigning in the eastern city of Dresden.

Matthias Ecke is a candidate in the upcoming European Parliament elections  for Chancellor Olaf Scholz's center-left SPD. He was attacked while putting up campaign posters. Party officials say Ecke was seriously injured and required surgery. German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has condemned the attack as a threat to democracy.

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0:00 The attack in Dresden
1:18 Johannes Kiess, Extremism and democracy expert, University of Leipzig
4:56 Alex Gerst, DW Political Correspondent

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