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Berlin’s Senator for Economy, Energy and Enterprise, Franziska Giffey, has been slightly injured in an assault in a library in the Rudow district of the German capital and was subsequently treated in hospital. A man suddenly “attacked the former mayor from behind with a bag filled with hard contents and hit her on the head and neck” in a library on Tuesday afternoon, police and the Berlin public prosecutor’s office said on Tuesday night. The state police have taken over the investigation of the assault on the politician, who belongs to the centre-left Social Democratic Party (SPD), the dominan…

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