Police in Berlin on Friday said a 30-year-old male tourist from Spain had been seriously injured in a stabbing at the site of Berlin’s Holocaust memorial.
Authorities later said one male suspect had been taken into custody near the scene of the crime.
Police said emergency workers were at the scene “to care for several people who had to witness the events.”
What we know about the attack The Tagesspiegel newspaper reported that police had sealed off the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe in the city center.
Police told the newspaper the man had been injured with a sharp object and was taken by the fire brigade to hospital.
Police later said the victim sustained serious but not life-threatening injuries.
The attack was said to have taken place on the northern side of the sprawling Holocaust memorial, near the US Embassy. Police said there was no initial indication regarding a potential motive for the crime.
Police spokesman Florian Nath told the Berliner that the weapon used in the attack had also not been found.
The Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe is a memorial to the Jewish victims of the Holocaust, designed by the architects Peter Eisenman and Buro Happold.
It is a 1.9-hectare (4.7-acre) site covered with 2,711 concrete slabs or “stelae,” arranged in a grid pattern on a sloping field.
Edited by Sean M. Sinico
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