Police shoot, injure man who stabbed several people at anti-Islam demo in Germany

BERLIN, Germany — German police say they shot and wounded a man who attacked a right-wing demonstration in the south-west German city of Mannheim.

Police say they could not yet give details about the extent of the injuries suffered by the people gathered on the city’s central Marktplatz square.

A livestream broadcast from the same location by anti-Islam activist Michael Stuerzenberger showed the 59-year-old preparing to address a small crowd.

“A firearm was used against the attacker,” Mannheim police say in a statement. A rescue helicopter was in attendance and trams in the area had been suspended.

Footage circulating on social media, bearing a watermark linked to his “Open Eyes” anti-Islam lobbying tour shows a bearded man attacking people on the square with a knife, one of whom suffered a deep cut to his leg.

Stuerzenberger, who describes himself as an Islam-critical journalist, has been a member of several far-right anti-Islam organizations, including the PEGIDA movement that holds regular marches in cities especially in eastern Germany.

A policeman is seen on the footage shooting the attacker as he grapples on the ground with another man, whereupon he rolls in pain on the cobbles.

There is no immediate danger to the public, police say in a statement.

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