The newly elected mayor of a city in West Germany is in critical condition after being found with multiple knife wounds on Tuesday, authorities said.
Iris Stalzer, 57, was dragged to her home after being stabbed at noon, the WDR television network said. The Bild newspaper said it had a knife injuries to its throat and belly.
Prosecutors and police reported in a joint statement that their investigation is considering any possibility and stated: ‘The involvement of a close family is not excluded at present’, As Reuters reports.
The DPA news agency reported that her son and daughter, aged 15 and 17, had been brought for questioning.
Stalzer was transported by helicopter to the hospital and is still in an intensive care unit, according to authorities.
Bild cited researchers who reported that her son had told the police that his mother had been attacked by several men.
Iris Stalzer, a Social Democrat, is expected to take office in November, after being elected mayor of Herdeke in the Ruhr area.
Although the motive remains unclear, the case awakened memories of the murder of conservative local government president Walter Lubke in 2019, a supporter of then Chancellor Angela Merkel’s policy for refugees, who was shot by a far -right.
Four years before that, Enriete Reker was stabbed by a far -right extremist the day before he was elected mayor of Cologne. Reker has now fully recovered and is expected to leave her post later this year.
Source :Skai
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