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First aid
equipment lies on the ground next to an election campaign poster of Henriette
Reker in Cologne, Germany October 17, 2015. © Wolfgang Rattay / Reuters
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A leading candidate
running for mayor of the German city of Cologne has been stabbed in the neck
and seriously injured just a day before the elections. According to police, she
was attacked because of her support for German refugee policy. Henriette Reker, an independent candidate running
for mayor of Cologne, was attacked by a man armed with a “20 centimeter-long”
knife when she stopped at an information stand for the Chancellor Angela
Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union party (CDU). Her aide as well as three
other people that tried to stop the attacker were also injured in the incident.
"She
had arrived here just a few minutes before ... She was talking to two other
party members when it happened," Bernd Petelkau, a local CDU official,
said as quoted by Reuters.
