Abdullah Demir: Kebab Shop and Union Cdu

abdullah demir: Hollstein was treated at the local hospital and released, according to Toronto Star. At a news conference Tuesday, he credited the kebab shop owner, Abdullah Demir, as well as Demir's wife and son, with intervening to save his life. Andreas Hollstein, a member of Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservative Christian Democratic Union CDU was at a kebab shop in the west German town of Altena on Monday evening when a man asked if he was the mayor, shouted criticisms of his asylum policies and then lunged with a foot-long blade. Read more Opinion Angela Merkel suffers, and so does the world Article Continued Below EU court rejects Hungary, Slovakia appeal in refugee case Germany's immigrant population hits new high in 2016 I'm sure that if they hadn't reacted like that, I wouldn't be alive now, Hollstein said, his neck wrapped in bandages. react-empty 159 Demir, who is of Turkish family origin, told the German tabloid Bild that the mayor had just ordered a Turkish kebab sandwich when the perpetrator, who appeared to be drunk, confronted him. Hollstein said, he thinks he wouldn't have survived without the help of the restaurant owners. /react-text Martin Meissner/The Associated Press The state premier of North Rhine-Westphalia, Armin Laschet, said security services believed the attacker, who was taken into custody, had a political motive. I myself am hungry and thirsty, the assailant said, according to Demir, while the mayor keeps bringing more refugees. react-text 166 Abdullah Demir and his son Ahmet Demir, right, stand in their kebab restaurant in Altena, Germany. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.