A young man was severely injured Sunday when he fell off a slab that's part of the German capital's memorial to the 6 million Jews killed in the Nazi Holocaust.
The 21-year-old tourist, whose name was not released in line with German privacy rules, fell several meters early Sunday and was taken to the hospital with head injuries, the German news agency DPA reported.
Police were still investigating the cause of the accident, DPA reported. Local Berlin media said the young man was an Italian tourist who had underestimated the height when jumping off the slab, which was in an unlit part of the memorial.
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The Berliner Zeitung reported that the tourist was brought to a hospital on Sunday night at around 1.50am. It is reported that the Italian man misjudged his landing falling down a deep depression between the blocks and a large staircase.