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.

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,

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