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Eugene

(61,595 posts)
Wed Jan 9, 2019, 02:17 PM Jan 2019

German police cast doubt on details of attack on rightwing politician

Yesterday in LBN: German AfD Lawmaker Severely Injured in Bremen Street Attack

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Source: The Guardian

German police cast doubt on details of attack on rightwing politician

Footage appears to contradict assertions that Frank Magnitz, from Alternative für Deutschland, was beaten

Kate Connolly in Berlin
Wed 9 Jan 2019 15.16 GMT

German police and prosecutors have questioned some of the claims made by a rightwing populist politician who suffered an attack that left him with serious head injuries.

Police say video footage casts doubt on assertions by Frank Magnitz that he was beaten with a wooden instrument by attackers who only stopped assaulting him when two passersby intervened.

Magnitz, 66, the head of Alternative für Deutschland in the city state of Bremen, was hospitalised on Monday evening after being attacked by strangers.

The AfD claimed he had been knocked to the ground with a wooden instrument before being beaten around the head.

Jörg Meuthen, the party’s federal chairman, posted a photograph on Twitter on Tuesday, showing the MP, apparently unconscious, with a deep gash to his head and a bruised face, and calling the attack an “assassination attempt”.

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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jan/09/german-police-cast-doubt-on-details-of-attack-on-rightwing-politician-frank-magnitz
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German police cast doubt on details of attack on rightwing politician (Original Post) Eugene Jan 2019 OP
The AfD is propaganda-savvy and unscrupulous DFW Jan 2019 #1

DFW

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1. The AfD is propaganda-savvy and unscrupulous
Wed Jan 16, 2019, 02:24 AM
Jan 2019

I wouldn't believe their version of what happened on almost anything.

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