(AFP) German investigators said Monday they were probing an attack on a Jewish student outside a synagogue in the northwestern city of Hamburg as attempted murder with anti-Semitic intent.
The suspect, who has been arrested, was dressed in combat fatigues and had a piece of paper with a handdrawn swastika in his pocket, said police and prosecutors in a statement.
"The current assessment of the situation suggests that this is an anti-Semitic motivated attack," they said, adding that investigators are treating it as a "attempted murder with grievous bodily harm".