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Harsher penalties will not be enough to curb the increasing aggression against politicians, Justice Minister Marco Buschmann has said. “The attempt to solve the social problem of a general brutalization of political debate with criminal law alone will fail,” the politician from the pro-business Free Democratic Party (FDP) told dpa. Nevertheless, he was prepared to look at proposals from the federal states on criminal law. The federal and state interior ministers had met for a video conference on Tuesday following the brutal attack on a Social Democratic (SPD) member of European Parliament from…

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