A 19-year-old Syrian man was arrested after a stabbing attack at Berlin’s Holocaust memorial that wounded a Spanish man. Initial investigations suggested \”connections with the Middle East conflict\”, police and prosecutors said. The victim suffered life-threatening injuries to his neck and had to be placed in an artificial coma but was no longer in critical condition. The attack happened two days before a general election after a campaign centred heavily on immigration after a series of deadly stabbing and car ramming attacks blamed on migrants. The Syrian suspect came to Germany in 2023 as an unaccompanied minor, police said. He was granted asylum and lived in the eastern city of Leipzig, according to the investigators. There was no evidence of links to other people or groups and the suspect had not previously come to the attention of the police in Berlin, they said. It is the latest in a string of anti-Jewish attacks in Germany since the October 7, 2023 Hamas attack on Israel that sparked the war in Gaza.
