Youths stab journalist in Germany then perform Hitler salute
Authorities have voiced concern over resurgence of far-right in country's east
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Your support makes all the difference.German youths performed a Hitler salute as they stabbed a journalist in the street in Germany.
Freelance reporter Klaus-Peter Krummling was attacked after leaving a supermarket in Naumburg, a city in the north-east state of Saxony-Anhalt.
The 59-year-old had confronted the three teenagers after one of them spat at his car and swore at him on Friday evening, reported Naumburger Tageblatt, a local newspaper he works for.
One of the youths lunged at the journalist with a knife while another performed a Nazi salute.
“Only later in the car did I see that my stomach was wet and everything was red. Once I was home, I alerted the police,” he told the newspaper.
Mr Krummling was taken to hospital for treatment to a 6cm knife wound.
The blade missed his organs and his injuries were not life-threatening.
Police are investigating and believe the attackers were German.
Naumburg, a town of about 33,000 people, is in a region where authorities have warned about the rise of the far right.
The former mayor of Troglitz, 20 miles away, warned: "The seeds of neo-nazism [were] germinating" in 2015 after a refugee housing block was torched by arsonists.
Police in Chemnitz, in the neighbouring state of Saxony, this week detained six people suspected of forming of a far-right militant organisation which planned terrorist attacks on politicians and civil servants.
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