German interior minister Nancy Faeser said the attack on Matthias Ecke, a German member of the European Parliament, was 'an attack on democracy'. Photograph: Odd Andersen/AFP via Getty Images German interior minister Nancy Faeser on Saturday vowed to fight a surge in violence against politicians after a German member of the European Parliament was taken to hospital after being attacked while campaigning for re-election. Matthias Ecke (41), a member of Faeser’s Social Democrats (SPD), was hit and kicked by a group of four people while putting up posters in Dresden, capital of the eastern state of Saxony, police said. An...