A deputy from the Green Party in the German state of Lower Saxony was injured in an attack during an election demonstration last night, DPA reported , quoted by BTA, citing information from the police and his party.
Police said a man punched Marie Kohlenroth several times in the upper body during an event in downtown Göttingen. According to law enforcement, she suffered minor injuries to her hands.
Police detained the suspected attacker, a 66-year-old man from Göttingen, near the scene of the attack. The German State Security Agency has taken over the investigation, as the law provides in such cases.
Kolenroth is a member of the parliament of Lower Saxony, Northwestern Germany.
"We condemn the attack in the strongest possible way," said the head of the Green Party parliamentary group in the province, Anne Kura, adding that it was "an attack on our democracy.".
"We are shocked, but we will not be intimidated,", she added.
According to initial data, the man made offensive remarks about the Greens at an election stand in the pedestrian zone near the Old Town Hall.
Police said there was a brief political discussion with Kohlenroth. After that, the man approached the deputy and started hitting her.
A series of attacks on politicians and campaign workers in the run-up to June's European elections shocked Germany, according to DPA.
Francisca Giphy, a prominent Berlin state minister and former mayor who belongs to Scholz's centre-left party, the GSDP, was attacked while visiting a library in the German capital earlier this month.
MP Matthias Ecke, also from the GSDP, was beaten and hospitalized in Dresden at the beginning of May. Green Party politician Yvonne Mosler was also insulted, threatened and spat on while putting up posters in Dresden a few days later.