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What a brutal attack on a politician tells us about the state of German journalism

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Jörg Luyken
May 06, 2024
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Dear Reader,

On Friday, a candidate for the Social Democrats for the upcoming EU elections was hospitalised after being beaten up while putting up campaign posters in Dresden.

SPD politician Matthias Ecke was attacked by four assailants late in the evening. They punched him with such ferocity that he had to be operated on.

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