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After a stone slab attack on a synagogue in Essen, the police arrested a suspect.
It was a 37-year-old Iranian, the police in the Ruhr area city announced on Tuesday.
He had appeared earlier in the police force and was treated in a specialist clinic after each of these missions, it said.
The suspect is said to have thrown a stone slab in a window of the synagogue on Friday, November 20.
Investigations by state security revealed that he had also allegedly damaged a window in the church in a similar act about a week earlier, on November 14th.
Nationwide outrage over the attack
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The man was filmed unmasked by a video camera as he rattled the windows and doors of the synagogue.
This enabled the alleged perpetrator to be identified.
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According to the police, it is now being checked whether the arrested person can be brought before a judge on Tuesday.
The attack sparked outrage and a discussion about anti-Semitism nationwide.
Recordings of the attack then circulated on social media.
The Central Council of Jews in Germany called for the incident to be investigated and for more security measures to be taken at synagogues.