Police are investigating the use of unconstitutional license plates
Because the two suspects are said to have previously stood with a group from which the Hitler salute was said to have been shown, the police are investigating the suspects for using the symbols of unconstitutional organizations. However, both remained at large, the police spokesman said.
The two suspects were in a group near the crime scene before the attack. When the politician started putting up posters, the Hitler salute was chanted from this group.
Marko Laske, spokesman for the Dresden Police Department
Accusation: Waiting on hold for 110 for too long
Susanne Krause, spokeswoman for the Green Party in Dresden, criticized the availability of the police: “Yesterday our election workers found out that it took several minutes for anyone to answer the phone at 110.” She expects the Interior Minister to ensure that the police are reliably available to all Dresden residents in an emergency. In response to an inquiry from MDR SACHSEN, the Saxon Ministry of the Interior said that there was a good minute between receipt of the call and acceptance.
More than 50 election posters damaged
Meanwhile, there was further damage to election posters in Dresden. According to the police on Wednesday, 26 posters in the Räcknitz area were sprayed with red and black paint. On Tuesday night, a witness in Pieschen observed a man tearing off a poster and throwing it over a wall onto the grounds of the Neustadt hospital. The alerted police officers then found a total of 31 torn or partially destroyed posters from several parties in the area. The still unknown perpetrators are being searched for and state security is investigating, it said.
Just last Friday, the SPD’s leading candidate for the European elections in Saxony, Matthias Ecke, was beaten up in Dresden by four young men aged 17 and 18 when he wanted to put up election posters. Four suspects are said to have previously injured a volunteer campaign worker for the Green Party. The LKA investigators assume that at least one of the suspects comes from the right-wing extremist spectrum. MDR research suggests that other suspects can also be assigned to the right-wing extremist scene.