{"id":113189,"date":"2019-01-08T22:18:07","date_gmt":"2019-01-09T02:18:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=113189"},"modified":"2019-01-09T11:44:13","modified_gmt":"2019-01-09T15:44:13","slug":"now-theyre-killing-nationalist-leaders-in-germany","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=113189","title":{"rendered":"Now they’re killing nationalist leaders in Germany"},"content":{"rendered":"

German far-right MP Frank Magnitz badly hurt in Bremen attack<\/h1>\n

BBC<\/p>\n

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Mr Magnitz had just left a new year event in Bremen when he was attacked<\/p><\/div>\n

German far-right politician Frank Magnitz has been beaten up and severely injured in an attack seen by police as politically motivated.<\/p>\n

The leader of Alternative for Germany (AfD) in Bremen was attacked by at least three masked men in the centre of the northern city on Monday.<\/p>\n

The attackers knocked him unconscious with a piece of wood and kicked him in the head, AfD officials said.<\/p>\n

The government and politicians across the spectrum condemned the attack.<\/p>\n

What happened in Bremen?<\/h2>\n

Mr Magnitz, 66, had just left a new year reception in Bremen’s Kunsthalle art museum when he was attacked in the city’s Goetheplatz as he walked to a central car park.<\/p>\n

Police said he was beaten over the head with an unknown object by three men who then fled.<\/p>\n

Two local tradesman came to his aid and he was taken to hospital.<\/p>\n

Speaking from hospital on Tuesday, Mr Magnitz said he had little memory of what happened.<\/p>\n

Joint party leader Alice Weidel described the incident as an “assassination attempt” while local officials in Bremen blamed “incitement” from the centre-left SPD and Green parties.<\/p>\n

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AFD –\u00a0<\/span><\/span>This edited picture shows Frank Magnitz in hospital after what Mr Meuthen called “a cowardly and sickening attack”<\/h5>\n

Another party spokesman, J\u00f6rg Meuthen, tweeted a photo of Mr Magnitz lying unconscious in his hospital bed and said he had been left “half-dead”.<\/p>\n

He had a big gash on his forehead and severe bruising around his right eye.<\/p>\n

AfD entered the national parliament (Bundestag) for the first time last year with 94 seats and now has representatives in every German state parliament.<\/p>\n

Its anti-immigration platform has struck a chord, particularly in eastern Germany where it hopes to make gains in three state elections this year. AfD is also eyeing the May 2019 European Parliament elections.<\/p>\n

Last week an AfD office in the eastern town of D\u00f6beln was damaged by an explosion. No-one was hurt.<\/p>\n

SPD leader Andrea Nahles said that AfD was a “political opponent” of Germany’s tolerant society but anyone trying to fight it with violence “betrays these values and jeopardises our co-existence”.<\/p>\n

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