Syrian jailed over stabbing at Berlin 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 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.