The Federal Public Prosecutor’s Office announced in Karlsruhe that, in relation to the Islamistically motivated knife attack on the Berlin Holocaust Memorial last year, they had arrested a Syrian man in Berlin on Wednesday. The official statement noted that the man is accused of aiding in attempted murder and dangerous bodily harm.
According to the authorities, the suspect allegedly spent the afternoon of February 21, 2025, with the later attacker, thereby reinforcing the perpetrator’s intentions. The principal assailant subsequently attacked a man in the Stelenfeld area of the memorial for the murdered Jews of Europe in central Berlin, fatally injuring him, due to radical-Islamic and anti-Semitic views.
The attacker had previously been sentenced by the Berlin Chamber Court on March 5 to 13 years of imprisonment for attempted murder and dangerous bodily harm, though this verdict is not yet legally final. The newly arrested man is scheduled to appear before the investigatory judge of the Federal Court of Justice on Wednesday, who will decide on the commencement of pre-trial detention.
