Stabbing at Holocaust Memorial: Syrian Faces Charges
30th July 2025
A Syrian man, identified as Wassim Al?M., has been formally charged with attempted murder, dangerous bodily harm, and attempted membership in a foreign terrorist organisation over a stabbing attack that severely injured a Spanish tourist at Berlin’s Holocaust Memorial in February.
The victim, a 30-year-old man from the Basque Country of northern Spain, sustained life-threatening neck injuries.
Prosecutors allege Wassim carried out the stabbing at the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe with the explicit aim of killing Jews, motivated by extremist Islamist and antisemitic views.
The suspect “shares the ideology of the foreign terrorist organisation Islamic State,” federal prosecutors said in a statement.