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Chancellor Olaf Scholz urged Germans in a video message released on Thursday to vote in the upcoming European elections in light of recent attacks targeting politicians. Scholz said the spate of attacks on politicians and political campaign workers in the past few days are unacceptable. “Attacks on our democracy concern us all,” Scholz said. “One answer that every one of us can give is quite simple: Go and vote!” On Tuesday, a local Green Party candidate in the eastern city of Dresden was assaulted while campaigning. That attack followed the brutal beating on Friday of a Social Democratic memb…

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