ALBAWABA - German senator and former Berlin mayor Franziska Giffey was slightly injured after a man struck her on the head with a heavy object in a local library.
Giffey, a local minister for the economy and a member of the Social Democrats (SPD), was hit in the head and neck with a bag containing something hard, according to a police statement. Giffey spent a short period in the hospital.
The attack comes at a time when Germany is increasingly concerned about a wave of attacks on politicians. Four German teenagers are being investigated in connection with a brutal attack on Matthias Ecke, a Social Democratic member of the European Parliament, who was hospitalized with serious injuries, The Guardian reported.
Ecke was assaulted and beaten to the ground while putting up SPD billboards in Dresden, eastern Germany, on Friday evening.
