Her 17-year-old daughter is suspected of committing Tuesday’s knife attack on the newly elected mayor of the West German city Herdeckethe police announced on Wednesday. According to DPA, TASR writes about it.
Iris Stalzer from the Social Democratic Party (SPD) is recovering in a hospital from several stab woundsthat suffered at Tuesday’s incident in her own home. Police in nearby Hagene said that A 57-year-old politician described her daughter as an attacker.
The prosecutor’s office does not qualify the offense as an attempt to murder, but as a difficult bodily harm. Prosecutor Bernd Haldorn therefore did not apply for the release of the arrest warrant. Both adopted children are expected to release the mayors from custody and hand over the Youth Social Care Office. According to the prosecutor, a 17-year-old daughter, along with her 15-year-old brother, called the emergency line.
Two knives were found at the crime scene. According to the daily Bild The SPD politician was stabbed 13 times and allegedly had skull injuries caused by blunt violence.
According to investigators, the motive of the attack is not clear but the head of the Jens Rautenberg murder department said that Family disputes have occurred before. According to Bild’s daily The quarrel between mother and daughter has played last summer, mentioning domestic violence and use of a knife. The mayor also had tense relations with her son.
Stalzer is a lawyer and last month she won the second round of local elections in Herdecka in the Land North Rhine-Westphalia. With a profit of 52.2 percent of the votes, she defeated her conservative rival. The office was to be taken on 1 November. According to her party colleague Klaus Klostermann is So far, too early to say whether it will be able to take up features.
Herdecke has 22,500 inhabitants and lies on the Ruhr River near Dortmund.
