German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has called on citizens to take a stance against violence following a series of attacks on politicians in the lead-up to the European elections in June. “Violence threatens democracy, and that is why we must stand together as citizens against it,” the Social Democrat told around 180 guests at a talk organized by German media organization Redaktionsnetzwerk Deutschland (RND) in Potsdam near Berlin on Saturday. The chancellor’s comments come following a brutal attack on the Social Democratic Party’s (SPD) leading candidate for the European elections in the state of S…