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After the attack by a group of masked people on two right-wing extremists in Erfurt, the police investigation is continuing.
There are different information about the attackers, said a spokeswoman for the police.
Their identity is part of the ongoing investigation.
On the way to work, a 24-year-old and a 34-year-old were attacked by masked attackers with an axe, blackjack and pepper spray.
According to the police, the men from the right-wing extremist scene suffered serious head injuries and had to be taken to a hospital.
The attackers fled.
According to the information, the investigators tried to track them down with a dog.
A crime scene group from the State Criminal Police Office was also deployed.
The investigators assume a political background to the crime.
The police did not provide any further information about the crime.
According to the police, it is not the first attack of this kind in Erfurt.
A spokeswoman referred, for example, to the attack on the saleswoman of a trendy shop in the city in the spring of last year.
The domestic political spokesman for the CDU parliamentary group, Raymond Walk, warned of an escalation: "There is a great danger that the spiral of violence will continue and counter-reactions will follow." He spoke of an increasing radicalization of the left-wing scene and announced that this would be discussed in the wanting to make internal committee.
In the summer of 2021, experts presented an analysis of right-wing ideology and violence in Thuringia.
The results in terms of racism and right-wing extremism were therefore worrying.
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