As Bild found out, Quentin J. arrived with his mother at the Dresden-Süd police station in the Prohlis district on Sunday around one o’clock in the morning. He reportedly confessed to the assault, but did not provide any further details. Police said the youth had no history of trouble with the law. She will investigate him at large, because according to her there is no danger that he will try to escape.
Police are still looking for other attackers. These people are also suspected of having also attacked a Greens campaign assistant who, like Ecke, was putting up election posters on Friday evening. Witnesses estimated they were between 17 and 20 years old. According to one of the witnesses, it was a supporter of the right-wing scene.
A badly injured Ecke is in the hospital, where he had to undergo an operation. On Saturday afternoon, three people attacked a polling booth of the anti-immigration Alternative for Germany (AfD) in the Saxon capital. According to the police, two 23-year-old women and a 28-year-old man damaged a blackboard, posters and a table during the attack on the AfD stand. Police arrested the suspects based on information from witnesses. Investigations will be due to damage to other people’s property.
The police also informed that a group of about 20 youths damaged the election posters of various political parties during the night of today. Following a report from a witness, the police caught a 17-year-old youth in the act of destroying a poster of the Left party. DPA writes that it happened in the same street in which attackers attacked Ecke and a person helping the Green campaign on Friday.
Friday’s attacks were condemned by German Chancellor Olaf Scholz or the head of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen and because of the incidents, demonstrations were called for today in Dresden or Berlin.
Voters in Germany will decide on their next representatives in the European Parliament on June 9. Representatives of both the ruling and opposition parties warned that their members were facing a wave of physical and verbal attacks and called on the police to strengthen the protection of politicians at election rallies.
