{"id":244081,"date":"2025-02-21T21:50:03","date_gmt":"2025-02-21T21:50:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/21\/berlin-stabbing-attack-at-holocaust-memorial-injures-one\/"},"modified":"2025-02-21T21:50:03","modified_gmt":"2025-02-21T21:50:03","slug":"berlin-stabbing-attack-at-holocaust-memorial-injures-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/21\/berlin-stabbing-attack-at-holocaust-memorial-injures-one\/","title":{"rendered":"Berlin Stabbing Attack at Holocaust Memorial Injures One"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2025\/02\/21\/multimedia\/21Berlin-Stabbing-vqkm\/21Berlin-Stabbing-vqkm-facebookJumbo.jpg?ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Berlin Stabbing Attack at Holocaust Memorial Injures One\" title=\"Berlin Stabbing Attack at Holocaust Memorial Injures One\" \/><\/div><p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-0\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">After an intensive search, the police in Germany detained a suspect in a Friday stabbing attack at Berlin\u2019s iconic Holocaust memorial that left one person seriously injured.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The assault, two days before <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/02\/21\/world\/europe\/germany-election-economy.html\" title=\"\">a pivotal national election<\/a>, occurred in the labyrinth of concrete stelae that make up the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, located across the street from the U.S. Embassy and one of the capital\u2019s most sacrosanct sites.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Police <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/polizeiberlin\/status\/1893029920680366256\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">said<\/a> they were verifying the arrested person\u2019s identity and that the investigation was ongoing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The injured man, a 30-year-old Spaniard, was taken to the hospital, and rescue workers were treating people who witnessed the event for shock, the police said in a <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/polizeiberlin\/status\/1893005642299826302\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">statement<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-1\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The expansive <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2005\/05\/10\/international\/europe\/germany-opens-holocaust-memorial-in-berlin.html\" title=\"\">memorial<\/a>, described as a \u201cplace of remembrance and warning\u201d by Berlin\u2019s tourism <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.visitberlin.de\/en\/memorial-murdered-jews-europe\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">website<\/a>, covers more than four-and-a-half acres and contains 2,711 concrete slabs of varying heights.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Photos <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bild.de\/regional\/berlin\/polizei-im-grosseinsatz-messer-attacke-am-holocaust-mahnmal-in-berlin-67b8bec76ea1495d0a9ba923\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> by local news media showed a swarm of emergency vehiclesaround the memorial, illuminated by the glow of blue lights. <\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The attack comes as Germans prepare to vote in parliamentary elections Sunday that may reshape the country\u2019s political landscape. Frustration over Germany\u2019s stagnant economy and dissatisfaction with immigration have <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/02\/20\/briefing\/germany-elections-hamas-hostages-election-interference-cuts.html\" title=\"\">pushed<\/a> Germany\u2019s far-right <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/02\/19\/world\/europe\/alice-weidel-germany-far-right-afd.html\" title=\"\">party<\/a>, Alternative for Germany, or AfD, high in the polls.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The AfD party, which has been linked to neo-Nazis, has promised to stop migration and deport immigrants.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Over the last year, Germany has endured a string of seemingly unrelated attacks carried out by immigrants from Afghanistan and the Middle East.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-2\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Last week, an asylum seeker from Afghanistan <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/02\/13\/world\/europe\/germany-car-crash-munich-driver-arrested.html\" title=\"\">crashed a car<\/a> into a union demonstration in Munich, injuring dozens in the city, where global figures had gathered for a security conference.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">And in December, a Saudi Arabian citizen <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/12\/20\/world\/europe\/germany-christmas-market-crash.html\" title=\"\">plowed his car<\/a> through a Christmas market in Magdeburg, killing six people and injuring hundreds more.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-798hid etfikam0\">Christopher F. 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The assault, two days before a pivotal national election, occurred in the labyrinth of concrete stelae that make up the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, located [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":244082,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2025\/02\/21\/multimedia\/21Berlin-Stabbing-vqkm\/21Berlin-Stabbing-vqkm-facebookJumbo.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[163424,2601,4456,189654,4791,5402,90287,21324,37916,17302],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244081"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=244081"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244081\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":244083,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244081\/revisions\/244083"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/244082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}