Democracy is threatened by something like this, and that is why shrugging our shoulders is never an option, Scholz said on Saturday during a congress for the upcoming European elections in the German capital Berlin. We must stand together against it.
Shortly before Ecke's assault, what appeared to be the same group attacked a 28-year-old campaigner for the Greens, who was also putting up posters, police said, although his injuries were not as grievous. The constitutional state must and will respond to this with tough action and further protective measures for the democratic forces in our country, German Interior Minister Nancy Faeser said in a statement, saying the attack on Ecke was also an attack on democracy.
European Parliament President Roberta Metsola was one of many European politicians to sympathise with Ecke, saying in a post on X that she was horrified by the vicious attack.
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