Police arrest suspect in stabbing at Berlin’s Holocaust memorial

German media reported that the attack on Friday was a stabbing

A police officer guards the cordoned off Holocaust memorial after a man was attacked at the site in Berlin, Germany. Picture: Ebrahim Noroozi/AP

Police arrested a man suspected in a stabbing attack at Berlin’s Holocaust memorial that left a Spanish tourist seriously injured, police said.

There was no immediate indication of a motive for the attack on Friday, which comes two days before Germans vote in a national election on Sunday.