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2025-02-22 Europe
Man badly hurt in Berlin Holocaust memorial stabbing
[DW] A man has been seriously injured in a stabbing at Berlin's Holocaust memorial, police have said. Authorities said they took one suspect into custody.

Police in Berlin on Friday said a man had been seriously injured by at the site of Berlin's Holocaust memorial. Authorities later said one 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 Europa
...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum...
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 front man 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.
More from NBC News, courtesy of Walking Unvaxxed:
Detectives launched a manhunt across the German capital Friday after a stabbing at the Holocaust memorial in Berlin, two days before the country’s national elections.

Berlin police later said on X that one suspect had been arrested near the scene but that the investigation was ongoing.

Earlier, an unidentified assailant fled the scene with his weapon after the attack at the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe at 6 p.m. local time, police said.

One male victim was left with serious but non life-threatening injuries to his upper body. Six other people were traumatized after witnessing the attack and are now in the care of officers, they said.

Between 80 and 100 detectives and other officers were scouring Berlin, according to Florian Nath, lead spokesperson for the city’s police department. It was not clear whether the arrest meant the manhunt was over, or whether police were looking for anyone else.

“We have a suspect at large who took the weapon that was used in the attack,” Nath told NBC News at the scene. “We are looking at every area in Berlin, deploying plainclothes officers and officers in uniform; foot patrols, car patrols and we’re looking for a possible suspect.”

In the run up to the election Germany has been hit with a spate of high-profile attacks, some of them by people with migrant backgrounds. It has given a heated atmosphere to the vote, particularly around the debate on immigration.

Though scholars say the crime rate in Germany is actually decreasing, the incidents have deeply shocked the country during the campaign. The far-right, anti-migrant Alternative for Germany party has pointed to these attacks to support its calls for a mass deportation scheme and restricted borders.
Even more from the Times of Israel:
“A man was seriously injured by an unknown person” at the site, police said, adding that “rescue workers are caring for several people on site who had to witness the events” and that “the victim is undergoing surgery.”

Police later said they had arrested a male suspect near the site of the suspected stabbing.

“We just arrested a male suspect,” police spokesman Florian Nath said. “It’s probably the suspect that attacked the 30-year-old Spanish citizen at 6 p.m. here at the memorial,” he told journalists at the scene.

Nath added later that the suspect “had blood on his hands.”

An AFP photographer witnessed the man approaching police to talk to them at the memorial, about three hours after the attack.

Police then wrestled him to the ground and handcuffed him, with one officer shouting “we have the suspect” to his colleagues.

Before apprehending the suspect, police said they “don’t know anything about [the] motive.”

Police armed with assault rifles were at the cordoned-off Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, a somber grid of concrete steles located near the iconic Brandenburg Gate, commemorating Jewish victims of the Holocaust.
Update at 9:30 p.m. ET from information in comments, below: The knifeman is a Syrian asylum seeker, Wassim al M., 19, who arrived in Germany as an unaccompanied minor in 2023 and lives in Leipzig, Saxony, where his police file lists a number of acts of petty criminality. He is not known to the police in Berlin. Over the past few weeks Mr. al M. formed a determination to kill Jews, and so went to Berlin where he tried to cut the throat of a 30 year old Spanish tourist from Bilbao; the man is now recovering after having been put in an artificial coma. The authorities are checking to see if Mr. al M’s attack was triggered by mental illness, which strikes me as special pleading.
Posted by trailing wife 2025-02-22 2025-02-22 01:14|| || Front Page|| [11144 views ]  Top

#1 The attacker is a 19yo asylum seeker from Syria. No name given yet.
Posted by European Conservative 2025-02-22 05:43||   2025-02-22 05:43|| Front Page Top

#2 "According to information published by “stern” on Saturday morning, there are initial indications that an anti-Semitic motive is behind the attack. Citing security circles, the magazine reports that the 19-year-old stated during his interrogation that he wanted to kill Jews. The reason was the Middle East conflict. Investigators found a Koran, a prayer book and a hunting knife in the suspect's rucksack, which is believed to be the murder weapon. So far, there have been no links to Islamist organizations."


The 'Islamist organization' is Islam and the link to the organization is the Koran.
Posted by Elmerert Hupens2660 2025-02-22 06:21||   2025-02-22 06:21|| Front Page Top

#3 It cute how these EU mouth pieces poo poo these attacks and are like, stabbing victim pressed R3 for a med pack, zip, 100% health, and not he lived but will live the rest of his days in sub standard health not fully recovering from the gut stab and slit throat or sleeping well because of the night terrors and statistically 3000% more likely to fall into substance abuse and domestic issues.

But you know, 'EU mouth pieces' will get me bagged for a hate crime, and that's what is important.
Posted by swksvolFF 2025-02-22 10:17||   2025-02-22 10:17|| Front Page Top

#4 Knife attack in east France kills one, injures two, media says
Posted by Grom the Affective 2025-02-22 12:29||   2025-02-22 12:29|| Front Page Top

#5 Remember though: Islamophobia is the number one problem!
Posted by Rambler 2025-02-22 12:54||   2025-02-22 12:54|| Front Page Top

#6 Bame of this darling: Wassim al M.
Posted by European Conservative 2025-02-22 15:54||   2025-02-22 15:54|| Front Page Top

#7 Name of course.
Posted by European Conservative 2025-02-22 15:55||   2025-02-22 15:55|| Front Page Top

#8 A search of the name Wassim al M. led me to the Daily Mail, which expands on Elmerert Hupens2660’s link.

A 19-year-old Syrian man has been accused of stabbing a Spanish tourist at a Holocaust Memorial site in Berlin, police have said.

The suspect is believed to have approached the 30-year-old man from behind before stabbing and seriously injuring the Spaniard before fleeing on Friday evening.

Nearly three hours after the attack, the assailant was arrested when he approached officers with blood on his hands and clothes.

The Syrian refugee, whose name is Wassim al M. - according to Bild - apparently wanted to kill Jews, investigators have said.

In a statement, Berlin Police said the victim had sustained life-threatening injuries to the neck when he was attacked with a knife.

The 30-year-old underwent an emergency operation and was put into an artificial coma for a while, and his life is no longer in danger, they added.

The victim, believed to be from Bilbao, is currently in a stable condition. Six others who witnessed the incident are receiving counselling from local authorities.

The investigation currently points to a link between the attack and the conflict in the Middle East, police and prosecutors said.

The evidence so far, particularly from what the suspect told police in questioning, suggests that he had decided in the last few weeks to kill Jews, authorities said.

However there is no evidence to suggest he is connected to any individuals or groups at this stage, they added.

Investigators found, a prayer mat, a Quran, and the knife he apparently used during the attack in a backpack he was carrying, local media reports.

Police and the Berlin Public Prosecutor's Office said in a joint statement: 'According to previous investigations and current knowledge, there are apparently connections with the Middle East conflict.

'According to current knowledge, in particular based on corresponding statements made by the accused to the police, the plan to kill Jews is said to have been maturing in his mind for several weeks.'

Wassim al M arrived in Germany in 2023 as an unaccompanied minor and successfully applied for asylum, according to asylum records seen by Bild, and had been living in Leipzig.

Investigators were working to determine whether the suspect suffered from mental illness. They said he was not previously known to police or judicial authorities in Berlin.

He is under investigation on suspicion of attempted murder and bodily harm and is due to appear before a judge on Saturday.
Posted by trailing wife 2025-02-22 21:23||   2025-02-22 21:23|| Front Page Top

#9 The Syrian refugee, whose name is Wassim al M.

Is his last name actually 'M' or is that short for something we can only guess* at? I was under the impression 'al' means 'the' in Arabic.

* like 'Mohamad'
Posted by SteveS 2025-02-22 21:35||   2025-02-22 21:35|| Front Page Top

#10 M is short for something, SteveS — they don’t report the last names of miscreants in Germany as a legal thing. I’d guess the M is tribal or country-related like Mizr for Egyptian. In Pakistan they might give the name as Wassim Md al XX, where Md is short for any of the variants of Mohammed. Hope that helps!
Posted by trailing wife 2025-02-22 21:52||   2025-02-22 21:52|| Front Page Top

#11 Thanks, tw, that is useful.

they don’t report the last names of miscreants in Germany as a legal thing

Innocent until proven guilty, I guess. We only leave out the names when it would cause people to make assumptions about ethnicity, gender or sexual confusement.
Posted by SteveS 2025-02-22 22:40||   2025-02-22 22:40|| Front Page Top

#12 Bit surreal reading this between eps of the nutsy season of Babylon Berlin (protag: Inspektor Gereon Rath). Show's silly in all the expected ways, of course, but I'm a sucker for even half-assed period atmosphere.
Posted by Pancho Poodle8452 2025-02-22 22:54||   2025-02-22 22:54|| Front Page Top

#13 Asked a curious Basque of Bilbao
Who was probably new to the Gau,
"Could you kindly direct
Me to Germany echt,
Mein Herr maybe-Mohammed? Ach, owww!"
Posted by Pancho Poodle8452 2025-02-22 22:57||   2025-02-22 22:57|| Front Page Top

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