Newly-elected mayor Iris Stalzer was said to be ‘in and out of consciousness’ after being stabbed in the back and stomach multiple times, with her son and daughter being arrested on suspicion
The stabbed German mayor refused to name her attacker as her son has been pictured being taken away by police. Police arrested the teenager and his 17-year-old sister after Iris Stalzer was allegedly knifed in a frenzied attack near her home yesterday.
In newly emerged photos, the suspect can be seen wrapped in a blanket as they were being escorted into a police van. Stalzer’s daughter is also suspected to be involved with the crime. The mayor, who is still in a critical condition, was “briefly responsive” with police this afternoon, according to Welt. Official reports say Stalzer was “awake a some point” and able to answer brief questions. She allegedly said she “knew who committed the crime”, but gave no further details.
The newly-elected mayor was found with multiple stab wounds on their stomach and back after she was “stabbed 13 times” in a frenzied attack.
She was left fighting for her life in the horror attack, which happened just weeks after her adopted daughter allegedly lunged at her with a knife at their flat.
Her 15-year-old adopted son is said to have found her seriously wounded inside her home. He was led away in cuffs by cops to be quizzed, witnesses told local news outlet WELT.
Investigators said his detention was to stop evidence being covered up, Bild reported.
Initial reports said the centre-left Social Democratic party politician was stabbed in the stomach and back by “several men” near her flat at around lunchtime on Tuesday.
Stalzer reportedly told her adopted son she had been assaulted on the street before managing to get back indoors. Her 17-year-old daughter was also inside the flat at the time, according to Bild.
The two children phoned the police around lunchtime, sparking a huge emergency response as police and medics rushed round to the family home.
Medics urgently placed a collapsed Stalzer on a stretcher and airlifted her to the Knappschaft University Hospital in Bochum. She was still in a critical condition this afternoon.
Police have since issued a major alert and launched a large-scale manhunt for the culprits and a special homicide squad from nearby Hagen is now investigating whether the stabbing is linked to domestic tensions inside the family, it is reported.
Investigators are said to be checking whether the boy himself could be involved after no other witnesses were found to have seen a group of attackers at the scene.
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