Last night, a 30-year-old Spanish national was reportedly stabbed “unsuspectingly” at the Holocaust memorial in Berlin, Germany.
The suspect has finally been identified as a 19 year-old Syrian national asylum seeker named Wassim al M. His residence in Leipzig has already been raided. He is to be presented to a judge shortly . According to Stern, the suspect was not motivated by Islamist ideology, but rather anti-semitism.
In the past two years alone, Germany has experienced several deadly attacks involving asylum seekers. Notable incidents include:
The Solingen Stabbings (August 24, 2024): In Solingen, North Rhine-Westphalia, where 26-year-old Syrian asylum seeker Issa al Hassan fatally stabbed two individuals and injured several others. Al Hassan, born in Deir ez-Zor, Syria, in 1998, had his asylum application denied in February 2023 but remained in Germany due to administrative delays. Authorities later linked him to radical Islamist ideologies.
Aschaffenburg Knife Attack (January 2025): In Aschaffenburg, Bavaria, an Afghan asylum seeker attacked pedestrians with a knife, resulting in multiple fatalities and injuries. The exact number of casualties and the suspect’s identity have not been fully disclosed.
Then there are the 29 arrests of asylum seekers for various foiled plots in the same time period to carry out attacks in Germany as ISIS has significantly ramped up calls for such attacks on social media and their dark web chat rooms.
German parliamentary elections are tomorrow where this issue will be on the ballot.