#jihadist-attack

#jihadist-attack

The victim only survived because the defendant missed major blood vessels by a few millimetres. He approached the 30-year-old victim from behind, among the concrete steles of the memorial, and inflicted a 14-centimetre-long cut to his throat with a knife. The victim, who was visiting the memorial with two friends, was badly wounded but managed to stagger out of the steles before collapsing in front of the memorial.

German authorities said Sunday they arrested a 22-year-old Syrian man in Berlin suspected of preparing a "jihadist" attack, without giving details of the alleged plot. The suspect, arrested on Saturday in the capital's southern Neukoelln district, was being kept in a detention centre and was to be brought before an investigating judge later Sunday. He was alleged to have plotted "a jihadist-motivated attack", a spokesman for the prosecutor's office in Berlin told AFP.