German authorities said a Syrian suspect was intending “to kill Jews” when he stabbed a tourist in Berlin on Friday, the latest in a string of attacks by refugees and asylum seekers ahead of a crucial election on Sunday.

Police arrested the suspect, whose hands and trousers were smeared with blood, shortly after the stabbing on Friday evening. He was found to be carrying a prayer rug, a Quran, a note with verses from the Quran dated the previous day,

Berlin police have arrested a suspect after a man was stabbed and seriously injured near the city’s Holocaust memorial on Friday night.