(FILES) Then Berlin's mayor Franziska Giffey, then also top candidate of the Social Democratic SPD Party for the repeated state elections, addresses the media as the shadow of SPD leader Lars Klingbeil is seen on the right, in Berlin on January 9, 2023. An attacker hit Giffey in the head with a bag in the latest in a rash of assaults against politicians in Germany, police said on May 8, 2024. The suspect came up behind former Berlin mayor Franziska Giffey to slug her in the head and neck at a library on May 7, 2024 afternoon before running away, police said in a statement. Giffey, who is now Berlin state's economy minister and a member of Chancellor Olaf Scholz's Social Democratic Party (SPD), was treated in hospital for light injuries. (Photo by Tobias Schwarz / AFP) (Photo by TOBIAS SCHWARZ/AFP via Getty Images)