Iris Stalzer, mayor-elect of the west German town of Herdecke, has told investigators it was her adoptive daughter who stabbed her repeatedly in her home this week. Police said Stalzer’s life was no longer in danger.The mayor-elect of the Ruhr valley town of Herdecke, Iris Stalzer, is out of life-threatening danger and has named her adopted daughter as her attacker, police and prosecutors said at a press conference in nearby Hagen on Wednesday.
The 57-year-old local politician was airlifted to hospital around lunch time on Tuesday, found in her home with multiple stab wounds.
German mayor recovering, names daughter as knife attacker
Iris Stalzer, mayor-elect of the west German town of Herdecke, has told investigators it was her adoptive daughter who stabbed her repeatedly in her home this week. Police said Stalzer’s life was no longer in danger.
Stalzer narrowly won a runoff election last month and was set to be inaugurated in November prior to the Attack
The mayor-elect of the Ruhr valley town of Herdecke, Iris Stalzer, is out of life-threatening danger and has named her adopted daughter as her attacker, police and prosecutors said at a press conference in nearby Hagen on Wednesday.
The 57-year-old local politician was airlifted to hospital around lunch time on Tuesday, found in her home with multiple stab wounds.
What police found during their investigation
Police said that Stalzer had been able to answer questions late on Tuesday from her hospital bed.
Investigators said little about the possible motive or reason for the family argument, noting that the suspects were minors and that the case had only garnered so much attention because of Stalzer’s position in local politics and the possibility of a political motive to the attack.
But they did explain to reporters more about their investigation and evidence-finding on Tuesday.
Stalzer was found seated in a chair in the living room after the emergency call.
But police soon found, while searching the entire premises, signs of a struggle in the cellar along with Stalzer’s discarded clothes she was wearing at the time, and two knives thought to be the weapons used to attack her.
