Several women are given knockout drops at a party of the SPD parliamentary group. Around 1000 participants are present at the event in Berlin, including Chancellor Scholz. The attacks should now be cleared up.
At a party of the SPD parliamentary group, several women fell victim to an attack with knockout drops. This comes from an internal SPD chat that is available to the “Tagesspiegel”. "There are now eight people affected, one case confirmed by a test and one display against unknown persons," it says. The spokesman for the SPD parliamentary group confirmed the attacks with knockout tropes to ntv. All MEPs, employees and other guests who may be affected have been asked to report to the group leadership. Efforts are being made to further investigate the incidents.
The attacks happened last Wednesday at the party's courtyard party in the Tipi tent at the Chancellery, which was attended by MPs, employees from the German Bundestag and the constituencies. According to faction information, there were a total of around 1,000 participants, as reported by the “Tagesspiegel”.
It is usually a celebration with well over 2,000 guests, including guests from companies, other parties and journalists. This year, however, it was celebrated in a smaller, largely SPD-internal framework due to the corona pandemic. Federal Chancellor Olaf Scholz also took part.
ntv there is a letter from the SPD parliamentary group leader Mathias Martin to the SPD members of the Bundestag. It says: "At our summer party there were obviously attacks on colleagues with knockout drops. This is an outrageous event, which we immediately reported to the Bundestag police." The SPD parliamentary group recommends that other people affected "report this to the police immediately," writes Martin.
