Syrian refugee arrested after stabbing in the Berlin Holocaust memorial

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A Syrian refugee was arrested after stabbing in the Berlin Holocaust memorial, in which prosecutors said it was an anti -Semitic attack less than 48 hours before Sunday’s federal elections.

The 19 -year -old suspect was arrested Friday night after attack Bitter political debate about migration. .

Police and prosecutors said the victim suffered injuries that threaten life after being stabbed in the neck in the monument to the murdered Jew of Europe, a collection of more than 2,000 concrete slabs in the heart of Berlin that stands out as a Testimony of the dark Nazi of Germany. past.

The suspect, who lives in the eastern city of Leipzig, arrived in Germany two years ago as an unaccompanied minor and successfully requested asylum, the researchers said.

They said that the evidence until now pointed out a link with the conflict in the Middle East, and that the suspect had decided a plan to kill the Jews.

The attack occurs when the extreme right and anti-immigration alternative for Germany (AFD) ensures a second historical place in Sunday’s vote with approximately 20 percent of the votes, according to pollsters.

The party has taken over a series of attacks, including an onslaught of a Saudi doctor exiled in the city of Magdeburg in December that killed six people and left about 200 wounds. In January, an Afghan citizen with psychiatric problems killed a two -year -old boy and an adult in Aschaffenburg. Earlier this month, two people died and 30 people were injured after a failed Afghan asylum seeker led to a crowd in Munich.

Germany became the largest large number of Syrians and Afghans in Europe after the 2015 decision by former Foreign Minister Angela Merkel to open the doors of Germany to approximately 1 mn people fleeing the conflict, mainly in the Middle East.

The emergence of the AFD, which took about 10 percent of the votes in the last national elections in 2021, has forced other parties to attack the right in migration, including Christian democrats on the right, which is expected to be expected come first in the choice.