Berlin jails man for 13 years over stabbing at Holocaust memorial

A Berlin court on Thursday jailed a Syrian man for 13 years for a jihadist-inspired knife attack on a Spanish tourist at the German capital’s Holocaust memorial.The 20-year-old suspect, named only as Wassim Al M., was convicted of attempted murder, grievous bodily harm and attempted membership of a terrorist organisation, the court said.The stabbing in February 2025 inflamed an already heated debate on migration just a few days before a general election in Germany.Presiding judge Doris Husch said Al M. had committed the crime “in the name of the Islamic State (IS) group”.“The victim only survived because the defendant missed major blood vessels by a few millimetres,” she said.In a statement before the trial, the court said Al M. had intended to “target a person of the Jewish faith”.