Information reaching Kossyderrickent has it that Report that Afghan asylum seeker, Sulaiman A., stabbed Michael Stuerzenberger and police officer in back of the neck in Mannheim, Germany, is UNCONFIRMED.
German police have shot and wounded a man armed with a knife who attacked a right-wing demonstration in the south-western city of Mannheim on Friday.
Social media footage showed a bearded man attacking people with a knife in the city’s central Marktplatz square, where an anti-Islam activist was preparing to address a small crowd.
One person appears to be stabbed in the leg in the footage, and a police officer who tries to intervene appears to be cut in the neck.
Another police officer then shoots the attacker.
No information was available on the identity or motives of the attacker and police said they could not yet give details about any injuries among the demonstrators in the square.
The live stream was running on a channel called Eyes Open, which posts footage of anti-Islam rallies. The video appeared to have been deleted after the stabbing.
German Interior Minister Nancy Faeser said the background to the “dreadful crime” was being investigated.
“I am shocked and appalled by this violence in my city, which I condemn in the strongest terms,” she said. “What is clear is that violence can never be a means of political debate.”
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