Attack on election worker in Dresden: Green Party activist punched and kicked several times

The Green Party election worker who was attacked in Dresden was punched several times and kicked in the stomach and ribs while on the ground, according to his companion. "He suffered injuries, mainly bruises," reported Green Party activist Anne-Katrin Haubold in Der Spiegel on Sunday. According to her own account, she had been out with him on Friday evening shortly after 10 p.m. in the middle-class district of Striesen to put up election posters. The police assume that the same perpetrators are also responsible for the attack on the SPD MEP Matthias Ecke a little later.

The four men had already caught their attention beforehand because they were "unpleasantly loud", said Haubold. One of them had stood directly in front of her companion. "There were only five centimetres between their noses. He asked: What were you doing? My party friend replied: "We put up a poster for the Greens. Then came from the group: "Fucking Greens!" And the attacker punched my colleague in the face," she said. The perpetrator then struck again and struck a third time, knocking the Green poster-hanger to the ground, where two of the men then kicked him. She was able to pull her fellow campaigner up and shouted at him to run away. The attackers then ran in the other direction.

They were wearing high-necked jackets and baseball caps pulled low over their faces. "They were not completely masked. But they obviously didn't want to be recognizable," she said. Haubold did not want to clearly assign the perpetrators to the right-wing spectrum, even if that was obvious. "I don't know who it was in the end," she said. "There was so much hatred in their voices. If you live in Dresden, you know that from the right-wing spectrum. Of course, it could also be someone from the far left, sure. But that doesn't make as much sense." In the darkness, she was unable to recognize any distinguishing features from the right-wing spectrum. "It seemed like a concerted campaign with a script in the background: "Pick one"," she reported.

In principle, nothing should change in her party's election campaign, said Haubold. "We will continue to have stalls at the weekly market and also put up posters. However, only during the day and only in larger teams."