After a several-hour search, the perpetrator has been taken into custody.
German law enforcement has arrested a suspect in connection with the stabbing of a Spanish tourist at Berlin’s Holocaust memorial site on Friday.
The incident occurred in the Mitte district of the German capital, two days before the federal election.
According to RBB, the suspect allegedly stabbed a man without warning within the memorial’s field of concrete blocks, which commemorates Jewish victims of the Nazi regime. The injured Spanish citizen is currently hospitalized and in stable condition.
Later that day, the suspect approached a group of police officers. Police spokesperson Florian Nath informed the press that the suspect had blood on his hands at the time of arrest.
“As of now, the man’s identity remains unknown, and the weapon used has not been found,” Nath stated.
Germany has experienced a rise in terrorist incidents recently. In December, a Saudi-born anti-Islam activist drove an SUV into a crowd at a Christmas market in Magdeburg, resulting in six fatalities and at least 299 injuries. In August 2024, a Syrian refugee fatally stabbed three individuals in Solingen, and last month, an Afghan asylum seeker killed two people, including a young child, in Aschaffenburg.
On February 13, another Afghan asylum seeker drove a vehicle into a trade union protest in Munich, causing two deaths and 37 injuries.
The increase in terrorism has led to renewed calls for stricter measures on immigration and extremism, issues that have been central to the election campaign.