A man has been seriously injured in a stabbing incident at Berlin’s Holocaust Memorial, police posted on X on Friday evening.
The injured man was taken to hospital, according to the police post.
According to a report in the local Berlin tabloid BZ, the man was attacked with a knife by an unidentified person.
The victim was later identified as a 30-year-old man, a tourist from Spain.
The alleged perpetrator, a man whose name police did not disclose, was arrested several hours later following a large-scale search, police said at the crime scene.
Police statement
“The person is being taken into police custody and will be further interrogated by investigators,” said police spokesman Florian Nath.
The suspect had been identified by police officers searching for the perpetrator in the area around the crime scene.
“The perpetrator did not leave a weapon here,” a police spokesman said earlier. The police spoke of a “sharp object.” The victim was seriously injured in an apparent altercation in the memorial’s field of stelae, stone slabs reminiscent of gravestones.
Details still unclear
Many details remained unclear late Friday evening.
It was not immediately apparent whether there was any connection to the memorial.
Police spokesman Florian Nath told BZ: “The weapon used in the attack has not been found so far.”
Witnesses had reportedly saw a man running away.
Memorial opened in 2005
The Holocaust Memorial, designed by architect Peter Eisenman, was opened to the public in May 2005. With the field of stelae and an underground information centre in the German capital near the Brandenburg Gate, it commemorates the approximately 6 million Jews murdered under Nazi rule.
Germany has seen a spate of knife crimes in recent months.
Two people were killed in a stabbing in a park in Aschaffenburg in Bavaria in January.
