According to his own statements, the Bavarian AfD candidate for the state parliament, Andreas Jurca, was seriously injured in an attack in the night from Friday to Saturday in Augsburg. The background is said to be his political activities.
An Augsburg AfD politician claims to have been the victim of a violent attack. The 35-year-old employee of the AfD parliamentary group suffered a broken ankle and injuries to his face during the attack, a parliamentary group spokesman said on Monday in Munich. AfD politicians said on Monday that the 35-year-old had been beaten up in Augsburg because of his political activities. Police and prosecutors did not confirm this connection.
The AfD state parliament candidate Andreas Jurca dialed the emergency call around 5 a.m. on Saturday morning and stated that he had been attacked and beaten by two strangers, the investigators reported. “As is usual in comparable cases, the cause, the course of events and the possible background to the facts reported by the 35-year-old are currently the subject of the investigation.”
AfD politicians apparently beaten up
The police are investigating on suspicion of dangerous bodily harm. Police called on witnesses to come forward. Jurca is an employee of the AfD parliamentary group in Munich.
“The background to the fact was apparently his work for the AfD,” says a statement from the parliamentary group. According to Jurca’s description, he was asked about his candidacy for the AfD by a group of young men, the parliamentary group reported. When he said yes to the state parliament candidacy, he was immediately struck down. Such actions have increased in recent years, said the deputy parliamentary group leader, Gerd Mannes, but without concrete examples or figures. “They are a result of the constant agitation against the AfD.”
Reason should have been party affiliation
The state chairman of the AfD, Stephan Protschka, said something similar: “The cowardly attack on Andreas Jurca is the rotten fruit of the ongoing agitation of the political mainstream against the AfD,” claimed the member of the Bundestag. According to the party, Jurca suffered a broken ankle and injuries to his face. The police also reported injuries, but Jurca saw no need for medical care when he reported it.
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The incident has been the subject of heated debate on Twitter, which has recently been renamed “X”. A photo of the politician with two conspicuous, swollen blue eyes is also circulating there. On the one hand, users expressed their sympathy for the attack, but on the other hand they questioned almost every detail of the incident. Some even consider the Augsburger’s injuries in the widely shared photo and various videos to be make-up.
Source: Stern
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