A German mayoral candidate has been stabbed in the neck in an open air market, police said.<br />The arrested suspect told police he was acting out of ethnic intolerance.<br />He vented to officers his disapproval of the candidate's liberal policies on refugees and criticized those of German Chancellor Angela Merkel, according to German media reports.<br />But the election for senior mayor of the city of Cologne, in the country's west, will go forward as planned on Sunday, a day after the stabbing.<br />And victim Henriette Reker, who is expected to make a full recovery, was still up for election as an independent candidate.<br />Four other people sustained injuries in the attack, and a 44-year-old male suspect was arrested at the market, police told journalists on Saturday.
