Klopjacht on perpetrator after a knife attack at Holocaust monument in Berlin: “Victim in critical condition taken to hospital”

The stabbing occurred around 6 pm. Police and order services immediately arrived en masse. According to the German news site Nests The victim would have lost a lot of blood and were taken to the hospital in a critical condition. According to some media, several people are treated because they are in shock.

There is no clarity yet about the reason for the stab incident. The police have dropped off the surroundings of the well -known memorial monument and searches agents the place. “The victim is a man, his injuries were inflicted with a stab weapon,” said police spokesman Florian Nath to the newspaper Bild. “He is in the hospital. There is no information about the man’s identity yet. The weapon used has not yet been found. The perpetrator is on the run. Witnesses claim that they have seen a man run away. “

Earlier in the day, the German police had already arrested an 18-year-old man at Berlin airport who planned an attack on the Israeli embassy in Berlin. He wanted to leave the country after he had not succeeded in executing the attack. But according to the police, he had not yet stored his plans. According to the German newspaper Daily mirror it was an 18-year-old from Chechen descent. The police services assume an Islamist motive, according to Daily mirror. Whether both incidents have something to do with each other is not yet clear.