German state min. hit on head

Berlin, May 8: A senior figure in Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s party became the latest target in a string of attacks on German politicians when a man struck her from behind with a bag containing a hard object in a Berlin library, officials said on Wednesday.

Berlin senator and former city mayor Franziska Giffey was slightly injured

Palm Beach, Florida classified documents that he took with him after he left the White House in 2021, and then obstructing the FBI'S efforts to get them back. He has pleaded not guilty and denied wrongdoing. Trump faces four criminal cases as he seeks to reclaim the White House, but outside of the and taken to hospital for a short time to treat the pain. A 74-year-old suspect, who was previously known to police for hate crime and unspecified incidents against state security, has been detained, police said, adding the suspect was also believed to have mental health issues.

The attack on Tuesday coincided with an emergency meeting of state ministers

New York prosecution, it’s not clear that any of the other three will reach trial before the election.

The SC is weighing Trump’s arguments that he is immune from federal prosecution in a separate case from special counsel Jack Smith charging him with plotting to overturn the 2020 prez poll. — AP calling for greater police protection of politicians after a rising number of verbal and physical assaults ahead of European and local elections this year.

EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, who was in the German capital attending a party conference, said perpetrators must face the full force of the law.

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“We must protect all those who stand up for our democratic society and our country from attacks no matter what party they belong to,” she said. “If these people are no longer safe, then our democracy is no longer safe either”

Meanwhile, two people were arrested in Dresden after a member of the Greens party was shoved and spat at. — Reuters