Last Friday a 19 -year -old boy stabbed a 30 -year -old Spanish tourist, who was in the Berlin Holocaust monument. Fortunately, the victim, who was a young Biscay, as confirmed by sources from the Basque Department of Security to Europa Press, He has managed to leave the attack alive, although he suffered several gravity wounds in the neck.
The German capital police have reported this Saturday that the author of the aggression was a young 19 -year -old asylum petitioner from Syria and known as Wassim to M. For now no more details of the aggression are known, although it is believed that it could have had anti -Semitic motivations.
Sources from the Berlin Prosecutor’s Office have supported the information of the newspapers Bild y The mirror, in which it was detailed that the suspect arrived as a minor refugee not accompanied and was admitted after ensuring “in a credible way“That he was fleeing from the Syrian regime of former president Bashar al Assad.
The young man, who He was arrested just three hours after the incident In a large -scale operation, it will appear this Saturday, just 24 hours before the celebration of some elections that will be key to Germany, where immigration has become a central theme in the debate.
The Spanish government provides assistance to the young man
The Socialist and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Spain, José Manuel Albares, has affirmed that he follows “closely the evolution of the stabbed Spanish” and wanted to express his “Solidarity to your family and friends” In a shared message in ‘X’ (formerly known as Twitter).
“I closely follow the evolution of the Spanish citizen stabbed in Berlin. My solidarity to his family and friends. The Embassy of Spain in Germany provides assistance and support. Also to clarify the facts and those responsible. We protect our citizens in the Exterior, “he said on the social network.
The prosecution investigates the attack as a possible anti -Semitic attack
This same Saturday the Berlin Prosecutor’s Office has claimed to have opened an incident investigation as a possible anti -Semitic attack, since the detainee has made some statements that have raised the suspicion. “According to what we know so far, especially for the accused statements of the police, he had been planning to kill Jews for several weeks“Add the Prosecutor’s Office.
As collected EFE And the German police and prosecutor, the alleged perpetrator of the stabbing “holds in his backpack a prayer carpet, a Quran, a piece of paper dated February 21 with verses of the Koran and the alleged homicidal weapon, which indicates a religious motivation. “
Besides, “The choice of the crime place-the monument to the victims of the Holocaust-would also have been done in this context“, says the statement.” So far there are no indications of links with other people or organizations, “he adds.
The suspect, who will be transferred this Saturday before the instructional judge so that he dictates his entry into preventive detention, did not have a criminal or judicial record in Berlin. Police investigate whether “suffers from a mental illness”. Due to the transcendence of the case, the Berlin Attorney General’s Office has taken charge of the investigation for alleged attempted murder and dangerous body injuries.
