Henriette Reker Becomes First Female Mayor of Cologne After Stabbing,Henriette Reker becoming 52.6 percent of the vote to become the aboriginal changeable ambassador of Cologne, Germany, on Sunday, beneath than 24 hours afterwards accepting stabbed in the neck.
Reker, 44, was attacked just a day afore the acclamation opened in the mayor's race, according to CNN. A adjudicator ordered that the cutting doubtable be captivated by authorities until his trial.
On Sunday, Reker accustomed the nod for ambassador over Jochen Ott, whose Social Democrats had been in ability back 2009, German anchorperson Deutsche Welle reported. Reker, an independent, had the abetment of the Angela Merkel's Christian Democrats, the Greens, and the Free Democrats.
Reker was reportedly handing out roses to pedestrians in a bazaar Saturday if a man approached her and asked for one.
"When she approved to accord him one, he pulled out a knife and stabbed her in the neck," Frederik Schorn, Reker's attack spokesman, told CNN.
The doubtable was reportedly agitated about Germany's clearing badge and accepted arrival of cover seekers, according to the BBC News. Reker had been arch the way in award apartment for migrants advancing to Cologne.
"In the immigrant crisis and the refugee crisis, we accept a actual arguable agitation in Germany, and . . . there's an alive appropriate addition shouting out its propaganda, and some humans are just attainable for that," Schorn told CNN.
Deutsche Welle appear that the doubtable allegedly stabbed four added humans on Saturday afore he was chock-full by authorities. Reker was transported to a hospital and underwent surgery, according to the German broadcaster.
Cologne University Hospital said that Reker's accretion is acceptable to go well, but acclaimed that "the healing action for this affectionate of abrasion usually takes a assertive bulk of time."
In a Saturday night assemblage adjoin xenophobia, Hannelore Kraft, accompaniment arch of North Rhine Westphalia, accurate Reker, saying, "we angle actuality calm as democrats, to forward a assurance adjoin this abject act."
Reker, 44, was attacked just a day afore the acclamation opened in the mayor's race, according to CNN. A adjudicator ordered that the cutting doubtable be captivated by authorities until his trial.On Sunday, Reker accustomed the nod for ambassador over Jochen Ott, whose Social Democrats had been in ability back 2009, German anchorperson Deutsche Welle reported. Reker, an independent, had the abetment of the Angela Merkel's Christian Democrats, the Greens, and the Free Democrats.
Reker was reportedly handing out roses to pedestrians in a bazaar Saturday if a man approached her and asked for one.
"When she approved to accord him one, he pulled out a knife and stabbed her in the neck," Frederik Schorn, Reker's attack spokesman, told CNN.
The doubtable was reportedly agitated about Germany's clearing badge and accepted arrival of cover seekers, according to the BBC News. Reker had been arch the way in award apartment for migrants advancing to Cologne.
"In the immigrant crisis and the refugee crisis, we accept a actual arguable agitation in Germany, and . . . there's an alive appropriate addition shouting out its propaganda, and some humans are just attainable for that," Schorn told CNN.
Deutsche Welle appear that the doubtable allegedly stabbed four added humans on Saturday afore he was chock-full by authorities. Reker was transported to a hospital and underwent surgery, according to the German broadcaster.
Cologne University Hospital said that Reker's accretion is acceptable to go well, but acclaimed that "the healing action for this affectionate of abrasion usually takes a assertive bulk of time."
In a Saturday night assemblage adjoin xenophobia, Hannelore Kraft, accompaniment arch of North Rhine Westphalia, accurate Reker, saying, "we angle actuality calm as democrats, to forward a assurance adjoin this abject act."
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