(21 Feb 2025)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Berlin – 21 February 2025
1. German police collecting items
2. Police vehicle and emergency personnel
3. SOUNDBITE (German) Florian Nath, police director and spokesperson:
"The 30-year-old tourist was visiting the memorial and was attacked completely unsuspectingly. He was seriously injured, is currently in a hospital in the center of Berlin and is receiving medical treatment there."
4. Barriers and police personnel
5. SOUNDBITE (German) Florian Nath, police director and spokesperson:
"At around 2045 (1945 GMT), our police officers arrested a man at Behrenstrasse (name of road) at the corner to Ebertstrasse (name of road). The person had blood on his hands. The police took the man to the ground and and restrained him. Right now, it looks like he is the suspect and he got arrested immediately."
6. Pan of Holocaust memorial ++MUTE++
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Florian Nath, police director and spokesperson:
"The suspect attacked a 30-year-old Spain(ish) tourist in the memorial site, this is what we know so far."
(Reporter: "With a knife?")
"Probably a knife maybe (with) something else. We’ve seized a lot of evidence now. We arrested a male person at 2045 (1945 GMT) here on the corner of Behrenstrasse and Ebertstrasse, and this person had several (pieces of) evidence on him and we seized all this evidence. This evidence will be brought to (the) Criminal Investigation Department of Berlin and they are now investigating and preparing an interrogation of the suspect."
8. Police vehicles and officers
STORYLINE:
German police confirmed they arrested a man suspected in a stabbing attack Friday at Berlin’s Holocaust Memorial that left a Spanish tourist seriously injured, police said.
There was no immediate indication of a motive for the attack, which comes two days before Germans vote in a national election on Sunday.
Police spokesman Florian Nath told the gathered media that the attack happened at 6 p.m. (1700 GMT) “probably with a knife maybe with something else.”
Nearly three hours later, a male suspect approached an officer who had surrounded the memorial grounds.
“He had blood on his hands," Nath said.
Police arrested the man, handcuffing him and holding him on the ground.
Nath said police had seized evidence and would interrogate the suspect as the investigation continued.
The victim was identified as a 30-year-old Spanish man, who was taken to a hospital.
The attack took place at the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, a field of 2,700 gray concrete slabs near the Brandenburg Gate in the heart of Berlin, which honors the 6 million Jews killed in the Holocaust under the direction of Nazi Germany.
AP video shot by Axel Gerke.
Production: Kerstin Sopke
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