At least one of the 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," a spokeswoman for the LKA announced on Monday.
Matthias Ecke, who represents the Social Democrats (SPD) in the European Parliament, was brutally beaten by four assailants on Friday evening while hanging campaign posters in the eastern German city of Dresden.
Police have identified four young men, aged 17 and 18, as suspects.