Cake was thrown at Lindner at the start of the election campaign

The FDP chairman Christian Lindner is at an election campaign appearance in Greifswald was thrown with foam by a local politician from the German left. She hit the former German finance minister directly in the face. A local FDP spokeswoman and eyewitness said it was one Pseudo-cake made from shaving cream traded. Lindner tried the foam and continued his speech.

“Unfortunately it wasn’t cream, just soap,” he said. “At least they could have done that better, then I would have benefited from it too,” he said Lindner continued as he wiped his face with a napkin.

Lindner smeared the foam back into the woman’s hair

The ex-finance minister spoke to several people in a small hall at the constituency event in Greifswald. The attacker was brought straight to the ground by his security guards, as if on one dpa-Video can be seen. Previously she had said “Dear Sir Lindner” said and then threw the foam in his face. Lindner himself smeared some of the foam back into the woman’s hair.

Vice Chancellor and Green Party top candidate Robert Habeck wrote down X“physical attacks of any kind have no place in the struggle for the best solutions for this country.” Minister of Health Karl Lauterbach (SPD) also criticized the action. On X he wrote: “Violence against politicians can never be tolerated. It starts with the cake and no one knows where it ends.” Lindner have his “full solidarity”. Violence in politics is an “attack on democracy.”

The former German finance minister Lindner is the FDP’s top candidate for the early federal election on February 23rd. After the official campaign start on Wednesday in Potsdam, two speeches were scheduled for Thursday Lindners planned in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania – after the appearance in Greifswald, another one was scheduled to take place in Rostock in the afternoon.