Germany's Central Council of Muslims reacted with dismay on Monday to last week's knife attack at the Holocaust Memorial in Berlin. A 19-year-old Syrian refugee allegedly attacked a Spanish tourist with a knife at the memorial to Jews murdered by the Nazis on Friday,

Investigators say the suspect in a stabbing attack at Berlin’s Holocaust Memorial that left a Spanish tourist seriously injured is a Syrian refugee who apparently wanted to kill Jews.

Authorities in Berlin have detained a teenage Syrian refugee after a man was stabbed near the city’s Holocaust Memorial late Friday – as divisive rhetoric swells over Germany’s immigration policy, ahead of a consequential national election.