(AFP) German police said Friday they had arrested a male suspect over a stabbing that badly wounded a 30-year-old Spanish man at Berlin’s Holocaust Memorial near the US embassy.
The unidentified attacker used a “stabbing weapon” in the assault around 6:00 pm (1700 GMT), said police.
The victim is stable following emergency surgery, police added later.
Six people who witnessed the assault received counselling from rescue services who rushed to the scene, where bloodied clothes were left on the ground.
Police, some with assault rifles, cordoned off the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, a sombre grid of concrete steles located near the Brandenburg Gate.
