BERLIN — A second suspect was arrested Friday over a knife attack last weekend on a tram in the German city of Dresden in which an American man was wounded, authorities said.<\/p>\n
The suspect, a 20-year-old Syrian, turned himself in to police hours after a wanted notice was issued for him, police and prosecutors said in a statement. They said that he was arrested in a suburban Dresden square after calling the police emergency number and telling police where he was.<\/p>\n
The victim, a 20-year-old American, was attacked just after midnight on Sunday while the tram was at a stop. Police have said that he intervened when two men harassed a woman on board the tram and was then attacked himself before the men fled, sustaining facial wounds.<\/p>\n
The U.S. Embassy in Berlin condemned the \u201cbrutal attack\u201d in a post Monday on social network X. \u201cWe urge German authorities to swiftly bring the perpetrators to justice and punish them to the fullest extent permitted by law,\u201d it said.<\/p>\n