Syrian (19) stabbed
Knife attack at the Holocaust memorial in Berlin
Shock in Berlin! On Friday evening at around 6 pm there was a knife attack at the Holocaust Memorial. A man (30) was seriously injured. The perpetrator (19) initially managed to escape, but a short time later the Syrian, who was living in refugee accommodation in Leipzig, was arrested.
The victim was seriously but not life-threateningly injured in the attack in Berlin-Mitte. The 30-year-old tourist from Spain was in a stable condition following emergency surgery, a police spokeswoman said late on Friday evening.
The fire department had given the man emergency care before he was taken to hospital.
Perpetrator ran towards the emergency services
"The perpetrator did not leave a murder weapon here", the police spokeswoman revealed. However, it could have been a "sharp object". The Spaniard had been seriously injured by another male person in the monument's field of stelae. Before his arrest, the perpetrator is said to have run unarmed towards police officers securing the crime scene, according to Bild.
Weapon not yet found
The perpetrator is said to be a 19-year-old Syrian who lived in refugee accommodation in Leipzig. Initial police investigations are said to have already taken place there. The man is to be brought before a magistrate on Saturday. The murder weapon has not yet been found.
The Holocaust memorial by architect Peter Eisenman was opened to the public in May 2005. The field of stelae and an underground information point in the capital near the Brandenburg Gate commemorate the approximately six million Jews murdered under the rule of National Socialism.
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