According to her own data, politician and publicist Jutta Ditfurth has become victim of a violent crime. An unknown last Friday in ice to Frankfurt with a metal rod from rear twice on head beaten, wrote Ditfurth on Facebook. A paramedic took care of m. The rest of train was spent in a severely handicapped place. Despite a concussion, she held a lecture in Freiburg City Theatre in evening.
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According to her, re was no conflict before attack. She had previously seen perpetrator in a fleeting manner and mistakenly considered metal rod for visually impaired, Ditfurth wrote. After fact, German-speaking man, about 1.70 metres in size, told travelling branches of his attack that train was delayed and that he Ditfurth not be able to suffer. In Mannheim offender had gone out.
The police didn’t call Ditfurth. She was “too confused” immediately after fact. The Frankfurter Rundschau said that train attendant asked twice wher he should notify police. When she answered affirmative, train attendant said that a police mission would lead to a furr delay in already delayed move. Because of imploring looks of or passengers, Ditfurth did not.
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The federal police have now taken investigations, Ditfurth wrote now on Twitter. On social network, she called witnesses or witnesses to report.
In 1980s, she was a co-founder of Greens. As a radical ecological representative of left wing, she was temporarily on National Board of party. In 1991 Ditfurth left Greens due to differences in content and founded organization ecological left, from which later voter Association ÖkoLinx-antiracist list emerged. Today she sits for list in municipal assembly in Frankfurt am Main. As a publicist, Ditfurth is often a guest on talk shows.
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In Germany, politicians are regularly victims of violence. According to federal Criminal office in 2016, re were about 1,800 offences against office and mandate carriers, as TIME reported online. These included written threats, but also violent attacks. “We observe that criminal offences against decision-makers, politicians, operators of refugee shelters and helpers are not individual cases,” said BKA president Holger Münch.
