German Chancellor Olaf Scholz on Saturday condemned an attack on one of his party's European Parliament deputies as a "threat" to democracy after investigators said a political motive was suspected.
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Matthias Ecke, an MEP for the Social Democratic Party (SPD), was beaten by four unidentified attackers, according to police, on Friday night when he was hanging EU election posters in Dresden, an eastern city.
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