The trigger is said to be a dispute over the sending of a press release Iran war have been. Gottschalk told “Bild” (Thursday): “I criticized the fact that the press release only came after three and a half hours. We want to govern soon, why is it taking us so long? Von Storch got up, came to my table, held her cell phone in front of my face to show me something – and hit me twice in the forehead with the palm of her hand. If she had hit me two centimeters deeper, my eyesight would have been in danger!”

Von Storch defends himself: “I didn’t”

When asked by Bild, von Storch denied hitting Gottschalk’s forehead with the flat of his hand: “I didn’t,” she said. Von Storch continued: “I tapped his forehead instead of mine.” Eyewitnesses confirmed the incident to “Bild”.