Consternation in. The elected mayor of the German city of Herdecke, the Social Democrat Iris Stalzer, was seriously injured on Tuesday after being stabbed in front of his home and is in critical condition, as confirmed by his party.
The general secretary of the parliamentary group of the Social Democratic Party (SPD), Matthias Miersch, expressed his deep consternation for aggression, although he said he has no details about the reasons for the attack.
Stalzer, 57, She was seriously injured by her son in her apartment, where she crawled with several weapon lesions in abdomen and backsaid the newspaper ‘Bild’, who adds that emergency doctors are fighting for their lives.
The policy itself told her son that several men had attacked her in the street.
The digital edition of the ‘Focus’ weekly speaks of 13 wounds per knife in abdomen and back. It is not yet clear if the aggression has a political background, although personal reasons are not ruled out.
Speaking to ‘Focus’, Herdecke spdp, a city of 22,500 inhabitants in the federated state of North-Westphaly, in the west of the country, He said he has no record of recent threats against the mayor.
Stalzer, married and with two teenage children, has just won the second round of the local elections on the 28th when imposed with 52.8 % of the votes to the conservative candidate Fabian Haas. At the moment, the police have only confirmed one operation in the place.
