German MEP is seriously injured in 'far right attack' in Dresden while he puts ... trends now
A teenager has handed himself in over the assault of a German member of the European Parliament who was left seriously injured in a 'far right attack' while putting up posters in Dresden.
Matthias Ecke, 41, was assaulted on Friday evening and required surgery after being attacked by a group of four young men, his Social Democratic Party (SDP) revealed on Saturday.
A 17-year-old has now turned himself into police in Germany and claimed to be 'the perpetrator who had knocked down the SPD politician,' cops said in a statement Sunday morning.
'He admitted the act but didn't go beyond that,' police spokeswoman Silvaine Reiche said.
According to the Saxony State Criminal Police Office (LKA), the search is still underway for the remaining three suspects, who are all believed to be young men between the ages of 17 and 20.
Matthias Ecke, 41, was assaulted on Friday evening and required surgery after being ambushed by a group of four young men, in what is believed to have been a 'far right attack'
Ecke, a European parliament lawmaker for Chancellor Olaf Scholz's SDP, was set upon by four assailants as he stuck up EU election posters in the Striesen district, according to cops.
Scholz on Saturday condemned the attack as a threat to democracy and said: 'We must never accept such acts of violence'.
The lawmaker is currently the top candidate in Saxony for June's European Parliament election.
'The attack on Matthias Ecke is an unmistakable alarm signal to all people in this country,' Henning Homann and Kathrin Michel, chairs of SPD's Saxony branch, said in the statement.
'Our democratic values are under attack.'
The statement also claimed that there had been other attempts at intimidation and the destruction of posters, as German police continue their investigations into the attack.
The SDP pointed the finger at supporters of the far-right party Alliance
