Tino Chrupalla, Germany’s right-wing Alternative for Germany (AfD) party leader, was rushed to hospital after a suspected syringe attack at a campaign event. His condition is currently unknown.

A video of Chrupalla being rushed to a hospital went viral on social media:

AfD is a right-wing party in Germany that currently leads in all polls and is likely to win the next election. AfD is famously anti-American and against the war in Ukraine.

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Who is Tino Chrupalla?

Tino Chrupalla was born on April 14, 1975, in Weißwasser, which was then East Germany. He went on to become the owner of a construction company. Chrupalla is married with two children.

He has been a Member of the Bundestag since 2017. In November 2019, he was nominated by Alexander Gauland to replace him as co-chairman and later elected to the same position. Since 2019, Chrupalla has served as chairman and lead spokesman for the AfD.

Chrupalla’s political career began in the 1990s when he joined the Christian Democratic Youth, which was linked to the CDU. Chrupalla entered the AfD in 2015 and in 2016. He was elected to its district committee for Görlitz. At the 2017 German federal election, he defeated Michael Kretschmer, later Minister-President of Saxony, in the electoral district of Görlitz.

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He is currently one of five deputy chief whips of the AfD federal parliamentary group.

Ahead of the 2021 German federal election, Chrupalla was the AfD’s leading candidate for the Bundestag alongside Alice Weidel. Together with Weidel, he was elected group leader of the AfD parliamentary group in the Bundestag on September, 30, 2021.

This is not the first time that he has been attacked. In March 2020, two protestors set fire to Chrupalla’s car. He ended up suffering mild injuries while putting the blaze out. He condemned the attack as a direct attack on his family. He also said that it was beyond all conceivable boundaries of political debate.