BERLIN, Germany — A 19-year-old Syrian went on trial in Berlin on Thursday over a knife attack on a Spanish tourist at the German capital’s Holocaust memorial days before February’s general election. The suspect, partially named as Wassim Al M., is accused of being a supporter of the Islamic State group who intended to “target a person of the Jewish faith,” according to the court. He allegedly approached the 30-year-old victim from behind among the concrete steles of the memorial and “inflicted a 14-centimeter-long (more than five inches) cut to his throat with a knife,” the court said in a...
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