Olaf Scholz condemns attacks on politicians after third assault in a week

, has strongly condemned a rash of attacks on politicians after a senator and former mayor of Berlin was struck over the head in a public library in the third assault on an elected official in less than a week.

The German government condemned a “growing number of despicable attacks”, adding that a “climate of intimidation, of violence” could not be accepted. The European Commission president, Ursula von der Leyen, said perpetrators must be brought to justice. Giffey’s suspected attacker, who was known to police for hate crime and unspecified “incidents against state security”, was believed to have mental health issues, police have said.

Berlin’s mayor, Kai Wegner, said anyone who attacked politicians was “attacking our democracy … We will not tolerate this”. He promised to examine “tougher sentences for attacks against politicians”. Last Friday, an MEP from the SDP, Matthias Ecke, needed an operation for serious injuries suffered when four people attacked him while he was putting up EU election posters in the same eastern city, a recent hotspot for assaults on politicians.

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