By Sarah Marsh and Holger Hansen BERLIN (Reuters) -Four teenagers are being investigated over an attack on a German member of the European Parliament that left him needing surgery, police said on Monday,

At least one of the four suspects of the attack on a German member of the European Parliament is part of the right-wing political scene, the State Criminal Police Office (LKA) in Saxony said. It is believed that the suspect belongs to the "politically-motivated right-wing category,

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has condemned an attack on a European Parliament member from his party, calling it a "threat" to democracy. Matthias Ecke, the Social Democratic Party's (SPD) top candidate in Saxony, was assaulted on Friday as he hung posters in Dresden.

A 17-year-old boy handed himself into police custody after admitting that he had attacked German politician Matthias Ecke on Friday, May 3. According to CNN, Saxony police informed that a minor early on Sunday confessed to attacking a politician in the East German city of Dresden in the police station.

Following an attack on a German member of the European Parliament and a Green Party election worker in the city of Dresden, police have identified all four suspects. A 17-year-old had previously turned himself in to police on Sunday following the attack on Matthias Ecke,

A candidate for Chancellor Olaf Scholz's party in next month's European elections was beaten up and seriously injured while campaigning in Dresden.

In Dresden, Matthias Ecke, a candidate for the European Parliament from the Social Democratic Party of Germany, a native of which is Chancellor Olaf Scholz, was seriously beaten, reports Associated Press.