The police said they had detained a suspect in the assault, which occurred among the labyrinth of concrete slabs at one of the German capital’s most sacrosanct sites.

Police in Berlin say they have arrested a man suspected in a stabbing attack at the city's Holocaust Memorial that left one man seriously injured.

The suspect, a 19-year-old Syrian man, was living in Germany legally. Germans head to the polls Sunday after a campaign dominated by debate about migration.