A man detained in connection with the sting of a Spanish tourist on the Holocaust Berlin Memorial on Friday may have been planning to kill the Jewish people for weeks towards the German authorities.
The suspect, a 19-year-old Syrian refugee, wore a copy of the Qur’an, a prayer rug and a piece of paper with the date of attack and the Qur’anic verses when they were arrested, suggesting “religious motivation”, Berlin police said on Saturday. In the joint statement With the public prosecutor’s office, they added that the suspects told the police suggested that during several weeks the “plan for the killing of Jews merged in his mind”, and that the location of the attack also reflected this idea.
Police said they did not rule out the conflict with the Middle East, but did not find evidence that connects the suspected of other groups or individuals. He came to Germany in 2023 as a minor refugee, was a legal resident and had no criminal complaint, the authorities said, adding that they also explored whether a mental illness played a role in the attack.
The thirty -year -old victim, whose name was not published, sustained door injuries that demanded that the emergency surgery and be placed in a medically induced coma, the officials said, but his life was no longer in danger.
The attack took place in Berlin’s memorial -the remarks killed by the Jews of Europe, an expansive memorial -a remark across from the US Embassy. Came while the Germans were willing to vote in the division of national electoral on Sunday and in the middle of an increase anti -Semitism across Europe.
German economic problems, together with frustration due to immigration, are the central issues of voters in parliamentary elections where they are extremely right partyAn alternative to Germany, or AFD, has grown at the polls.
The AFD party, which is related to neo -Nazis, promised to break the immigration and deport some immigrants, a message that gained attraction in a country that suffered a number of attacks committed by people from Afghanistan and the Middle East.
Asylum seeker from Afghanistan put his car into the demonstration union in Munich February 13, injuring dozens, in December, a Saudi citizen killed six people and injured hundreds of more when drove his car Through the Christmas market in central Germany.
Lars Dolder contribute to reporting.
