A 29-year-old police officer dies after being repeatedly stabbed during an attack at an anti-Islam rally in Germany.
A knife-wielding man attacked and wounded several people Friday on the market square in the city of Mannheim in southwest Germany. Five people taking part in a rally organized by Pax Europa, a campaign group against radical Islam, were wounded in the attack.
The policeman was “stabbed several times in the area of the head” while trying to intervene, local police say in a statement. Immediately following the attack, he underwent “emergency surgery and was put in an artificial coma,” but “died of his injuries” today, police say.
Finance Minister Christian Lindner told German daily Bild that the death of the police officer “moves me deeply and makes me angry about what is happening in our country.”
“We must defend ourselves against Islamist terrorism with determination, and we will also strengthen the security authorities financially,” Lindner says.
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