BERLIN: Henriette Reker who runs refugee services in Cologne was out campaigning to become the German city’s first female mayor when she was stabbed by an assailant with a far-right background.
The attack, in which Reker was seriously wounded in the neck by a man motivated by “xenophobic sentiments”, has turned the 58-year-old trained lawyer into Germany’s most prominent victim of a growing backlash against a record influx of refugees.