A prominent member of Germany’s far-left Linke party Sahra Wagenknecht was hit in the face with a chocolate cake on Saturday in an attack claimed by a self-styled “anti-fascist” group protesting her stance on refugees.
Sahra Wagenknecht has advocated putting a limit on the number of refugees Germany should accept.
Wagenknecht was sitting in the front row during the opening speech at a party congress when a young man stopped in front of her and threw the chocolate cake in her face, before shouting what sounded like slogans.
The party’s president interrupted his speech. As cameramen rushed towards her, one party official asked journalists not to film or take pictures of Wagenknecht as another sought to screen the Linke’s parliamentary group leader with a jacket.
The man who threw the pie was swiftly taken away by security and offered no resistance.