At a news conference Tuesday, he credited the kebab shop owner, Abdullah Demir, as well as Demir’s wife and son, with intervening to save his life. BERLIN—A German mayor who had won accolades for his welcoming approach to refugees was recovering Tuesday after being stabbed in the neck in an attack that authorities said was politically motivated. “I’m sure that if they hadn’t reacted like that, I wouldn’t be alive now,” Hollstein said, his neck wrapped in bandages. Merkel on Tuesday tweeted that she was “outraged by the knife attack on Mayor Andreas Hollstein, and very relieved that he is able to be back with his family. Like Hollstein, Reker was stabbed in the neck in what authorities described as a backlash against her pro-immigrant stance.

Source: thestar November 28, 2017 15:56 UTC