Detectives launched a manhunt across the German capital Friday after a stabbing at the Holocaust memorial in Berlin, two days before the country’s national elections.Berlin police later said on X that one suspect had been arrested near the scene but that the investigation was ongoing.

An assailant seriously injured a man in an attack at Berlin’s Holocaust Memorial on Friday, police said, and German media reported that it was a stabbing. A man later was seen surrendering to officers,

The police said they had detained a suspect in the assault, which occurred among the labyrinth of concrete slabs at one of the German capital’s most sacrosanct sites.