"Chancellor Friedrich Merz condemned the heinous attack and called for a swift investigation. We fear for the life of the designated mayor, Iris Stalzer, and hope for her full recovery, he wrote in a post on X. According to WDR, Stalzer was repeatedly stabbed before managing to haul herself inside her home, where her children called rescue services. After finding Stalzer severely injured, rescue workers sent her to a hospital on a helicopter, according to Germany's Deutsche Welle broadcaster."
"Stalzer's teenage son told authorities his mother had been attacked by several men, Germany's Bild newspaper reported. Further details about the attack or potential motives were not immediately clear. Stalzer, a member of the centre-left Social Democratic Party, was elected mayor of the town of 22,000 people in the eastern Ruhr area on September 28. The attack came after a regionwide campaign that politicians in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany's largest state, described as unusually hostile."
Iris Stalzer, 57, mayor-elect of Herdecke in North Rhine-Westphalia, was stabbed in front of her home around noon and sustained life-threatening injuries. She managed to get inside where her children called rescue services; rescue workers airlifted her to hospital. Chancellor Friedrich Merz condemned the attack and called for a swift investigation, saying he feared for her life and hoped for full recovery. Stalzer's teenage son told authorities she had been attacked by several men. Officials reported no immediate details on motives. The attack followed a regionwide campaign described as unusually hostile and comes amid findings that 60% of politicians in Germany experienced violence.
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