A 17-year-old has turned himself in to police in the German state of Saxony, after an attack left a center-left member of the European Parliament in need of surgery, according to Der Spiegel.
Matthias Ecke, 41, was ‘seriously injured’ Friday evening after being assaulted by four young men in the city of Dresden while putting up campaign posters, according to a press release issued by his party Saturday.
Ecke is the Social Democratic Party’s (SPD) top candidate in Saxony for June’s European Parliament election.
The teenager reported to police in Dresden early Sunday morning and said he was “the perpetrator who had knocked down the SPD politician,” the police said in a statement.
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