German<\/a> <\/strong>police said Ms Stalzer is now in a stable condition, and was found sitting in a chair with multiple stab wounds before being taken to hospital in a helicopter.<\/p>\n Emergency services were alerted shortly after midday by her 17-year-old daughter, who reported that Ms Stalzer had been seriously wounded outside her house in an attempted robbery.<\/p>\n Both the mayor-elect’s daughter and 15-year-old son were taken into custody.<\/p>\n Image: <\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n In an update on Wednesday, police investigator Jens Rautenberg said Ms Stalzer pointed to her daughter as the suspect during questioning.<\/p>\n Officers also determined that the attack appeared to have happened indoors, found two knives and clothing believed to have been used, and determined there was no sign of a political motive.<\/p>\n Image: Prosecutor Bernd Haldorn said he considers it a case of bodily harm, and officials intend to release the children and put them in the hands of youth welfare.<\/p>\n That office could then decide on further measures while the investigation continues.<\/p>\n Read more from Sky News: Ms Stalzer – an employment lawyer – is part of the centre-left Social Democrats and beat a centre-right Christian Democrat candidate to secure her new job.<\/p>\n German Chancellor Friedrich Merz responded to the attack on social media and said: “It must be swiftly investigated. We fear for the life of the mayor-designate and hope for her full recovery.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The incoming German mayor found at home with stab wounds named her daughter as a suspect in the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":483668,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5310],"tags":[2000,299,1824],"class_list":{"0":"post-483667","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-germany","8":"tag-eu","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-germany"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115340091683585342","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=483667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483667\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/483668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=483667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=483667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=483667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"A](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/skynews-iris-stalzer-germany_7045174.jpg\")
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\n Iris Stalzer
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