Incident involving Syrian man comes ahead of election in which immigration is a major issue
PUBLISHED : 22 Feb 2025 at 20: 45
Police arrest a Syrian man at the memorial to the murdered Jews of Europe in Berlin after a knife attack on Friday. (AFP Photo)
BERLIN – A Syrian man arrested after a stabbing attack at Berlin’s Holocaust memorial that seriously wounded a Spanish man had been harbouring a “plan to kill Jews”, police and prosecutors said on Saturday.
The 19-year-old arrested on Friday with blood stains on his hands was carrying a copy of the Koran and a prayer rug, and initial investigations suggested “connections with the Middle East conflict”, they said.
The assault shocked Germany two days before Sunday’s general elections after a campaign centred heavily on immigration and security fuelled by a series of deadly stabbing and car ramming attacks blamed on migrants.
Interior Minister Nancy Faeser condemned the “abhorrent and brutal crime” and said that “we must assume an anti-Semitic” motivation.
The Syrian suspect “must be punishe
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