{"id":135663,"date":"2026-07-26T23:40:25","date_gmt":"2026-07-26T23:40:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/135663\/"},"modified":"2026-07-26T23:40:25","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T23:40:25","slug":"suspect-in-berlin-pride-attack-killed-after-manhunt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/135663\/","title":{"rendered":"Suspect in Berlin Pride attack killed after manhunt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A deadly attack on a Pride celebration in Berlin on Saturday inflamed Europe&#8217;s fraught debate over migration and extremism.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Authorities said a 21-year-old man \u2014 a German citizen whose family immigrated from Lebanon \u2014 drove a van into the crowd, killing one person and injuring more than 25.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">It comes weeks ahead of <a data-ylk=\"slk:regional elections;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2026\/07\/26\/berlin-pride-attack-investigated-terrorism-with-suspect-large\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">regional elections<\/a> in which the far-right Alternative for Germany party, which campaigns against migration and casts Islam as a threat to German society, leads in the polls.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The suspect, who was killed by police Sunday, was known to authorities and was in deradicalization consultations, Die Welt reported: His next meeting was <a data-ylk=\"slk:scheduled for Monday;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.welt.de\/politik\/deutschland\/plus6a65ac6bfe2765826e0fd8b0\/angriff-auf-csd-abdul-b-galt-als-gefaehrder-und-sollte-montag-zum-beratungstermin-fuer-deradikalisierung-erscheinen.html\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">scheduled for Monday<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Such assaults are the &#8220;inevitable consequence of a deliberately <a data-ylk=\"slk:overburdened system;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.berliner-zeitung.de\/article\/terroranschlag-auf-den-csd-buerger-sterben-weil-der-staat-es-nicht-anders-will-10235036\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">overburdened system<\/a>,&#8221; Berliner Zeitung&#8217;s editor argued.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u2014 <a data-ylk=\"slk:J.D. Capelouto;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.semafor.com\/author\/jd-capelouto\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">J.D. Capelouto<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A deadly attack on a Pride celebration in Berlin on Saturday inflamed Europe&#8217;s fraught debate over migration and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":135664,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[99],"tags":[112,65706,65707,65709,190,65705,65708],"class_list":["post-135663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-berlin","tag-berlin","tag-deadly-attack","tag-german-citizen","tag-german-society","tag-germany","tag-pride-celebration","tag-regional-elections"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@dk\/116988924849214351","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135663\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/135664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}