Newly elected German mayor Iris Stalzer found at home with serious stab wounds

Newly elected German mayor Iris Stalzer found at home with serious stab wounds

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Published on 07/10/2025 - 15:28 GMT+2 •Updated 18:13

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IStalzer told her son that she had been attacked by several men in the street and managed to drag herself home where she was found.

A newly elected mayor was found with multiple life-threatening stab wounds in western Germany, the daily paper Bild reported on Tuesday.

Iris Stalzer was elected as mayor of Herdecke on 28 September. She is a member of the centre-left Social Democratic Party (SPD), the junior party in Germany's conservative-led national government.

German news agency dpa, citing unidentified security sources, reported that she was found by her son at home with life-threatening injuries and had several stabbing wounds to her stomach and back.

She told her son that she had been attacked by several men in the street and managed to drag herself home.