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DUESSELDORF, Germany (Reuters) -A freshly elected mayor was found injured in western Germany with multiple stab wounds and her life is in danger, a security source told Reuters on Tuesday.
Bild newspaper reported that Iris Stalzer, a Social Democrat who was due to take office after being elected mayor of Herdecke in the Ruhr region a week ago, had been found by her son.
The case raises memories of the 2019 murder of conservative local government president Walter Luebcke, a support of then Chancellor Angela Merkel’s refugee policy, who was shot dead by a far-right activist as he smoked a late-night cigarette on his terrace at home.
Local and regional authorities were not immediately available to comment.
(Reporting by Matthias InverardiWriting by Thomas EscrittEditing by Sabine Wollrab and Madeline Chambers)
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