{"id":488279,"date":"2025-10-10T12:08:33","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T12:08:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/488279\/"},"modified":"2025-10-10T12:08:33","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T12:08:33","slug":"mayor-in-germany-found-with-serious-stabbing-wounds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/488279\/","title":{"rendered":"Mayor in Germany found with serious stabbing wounds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"anchor-c78a1e\" class=\"body-graf\">The newly elected mayor of a town in western Germany was found at her apartment on Tuesday with serious stab wounds, German media reported. Chancellor Friedrich Merz said she was the victim of \u201can abhorrent act.\u201d<\/p>\n<p id=\"anchor-1054e3\" class=\"body-graf\">Iris Stalzer was elected as mayor of Herdecke on Sept. 28. She is a member of the center-left Social Democrats, the junior party in Germany\u2019s conservative-led national government.<\/p>\n<p id=\"anchor-9ef19d\" class=\"body-graf\">German news agency dpa, citing unidentified security sources, reported that she was found with life-threatening injuries and had several stabbing wounds.<\/p>\n<p id=\"anchor-76e4c8\" class=\"body-graf\">Police said only that there was a large operation under way in Herdecke.<\/p>\n<p id=\"anchor-efa138\" class=\"endmark body-graf\">Merz wrote on social media that \u201cwe fear for the life of mayor-elect Iris Stalzer and hope for her full recovery.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The newly elected mayor of a town in western Germany was found at her apartment on Tuesday with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":488280,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5310],"tags":[2000,299,1824],"class_list":{"0":"post-488279","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\/115349796012617478","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488279","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=488279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488279\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/488280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=488279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=488279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=488279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}