A 30-year-ancigo in man has been gravely injured in a knife aggression proximate Berlin’s Holocaust memorial.
The incident occurred at about 18:00 local time (17:00 GMT) on Friday, police said, compriseing an allotigation into what happened was ongoing.
The victim – a Spanish tourist – was getn to hospital to undergo sadvisery after persisting wounds to his upper body that are not thought to be life menaceening.
Police have arrested a male mistrust, which German media increates is a 19-year-ancigo in refugee from Syria.
Officials have not validateed the identity of the mistrust, who is due to eunite before a appraise on Sunday.
It is not evident whether the mistrust was comprehendn to the victim, while noskinnyg is comprehendn of his motive or mental state.
Images showed aelevatency vehicles and armed police lined alengthy one side of the memorial site. Officers cordoned off the site and were searching the area.
They also said they did not comprehend what the armament was.
Many officers have been deployed to the area in the aftermath, with a police statement on X saying there were also save laborers on site “caring for cut offal people who witnessed the events”.
The aggression eunites to have getn place on the northern side of the memorial – opposite to which sits the US embassy.
The Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, which covers 19,000 sqm, is depictd as being Germany’s central Holocaust memorial.
Hours after the aggression in the German capital, Swedish police said they had apprehended three men proximate the Israeli Embassy in Stockholm, on suspicion of preparing to pledge brutal crime.
“We are unable to comment on the potential motive,” police spokesperson Susanna Rinaldo tancigo in the Reuters novels agency.
There has been no adviseion that the aggression in Berlin and arrests in Stockholm are connected.
The stabbing comes fair days before federal elections are held in Germany.
