Police in Germany detained a suspect on Friday, who stabbed an attack on the Berlin iconic Holocaust Memorial for leaving one person to be seriously injured.
An attack, which comes two days before Key national elections And in the middle an increase in anti -Semitic violence in EuropeIt happened in the laberit of concrete steles that make up the memory of the killed Jews of Europe, located across from the US Embassy and one of the most popular city towns.
Police said They checked the identity of the detained person and that the investigation was ongoing. Police have not yet revealed that the knife thought it had been used in the attack, according to the reports of local media.
An injured man, a 30-year-old Spaniard, was transported to a hospital, and rescue workers treated people who witnessed the event for shock, UA police said statement.
Expansive remembrancedescribed as the “place of memory and warning” of Berlin Tourism websiteIt covers more than four and a half acres and contains 2,711 concrete plates of different heights. It is also located next to the big public park.
Photos published According to local news, they showed a swarm of emergency vehicles that were memorial, illuminated by the splendor of blue lights.
Although the police did not connect the attack on any motive, Berlin has increased by anti -Semitic incidents Riasa non -governmental organization that follows the crimes ranging from internet to physical attacks. In the first six months of last year, the organization recorded almost 1,400 anti -Semitic incidents, half of which were online, in Berlin, more than it happened in all 2023.
The attack comes as the Germans are preparing to vote in the parliamentary elections on Sunday that could reshape the political landscape of the country. Frustration due to German stagnation of economics and dissatisfaction with immigration pushed German extreme right partyAn alternative to Germany, or AFD, high on polling stations.
The AFD Party, which is associated with neo-Nazis, promised to stop the immigrants of migration and deport immigrants.
Over the past year, Germany withstood a series of seemingly unrelated attacks performed by immigrants from Afghanistan and the Middle East.
Last week asylum seeker from Afghanistan knocked down the car In a union demonstration in Munich, injuring dozens in the city, where global figures gathered at a security conference.
And in December, a Saudi Arab citizen Sailed his car Through the Christmas market in Magdeburg, killing six people and injuring hundreds of more.
