{"id":136669,"date":"2026-07-28T19:09:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T19:09:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/136669\/"},"modified":"2026-07-28T19:09:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T19:09:12","slug":"berlin-pride-attacker-recorded-pledge-of-allegiance-to-is-prosecutors-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/136669\/","title":{"rendered":"Berlin Pride attacker recorded pledge of allegiance to IS, prosecutors say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Though the person in the video was masked, authorities assume it shows the suspected attacker, 21-year-old <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/diaspora\/antisemitism\/article-903914\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">German<\/a> citizen Abdul Ballout, a spokesperson for the federal prosecutors&#8217; office said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">He would not specify when the video was recorded.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">Ballout, who was shot dead by police on Sunday, is suspected of plowing a vehicle into crowds in Tiergarten park near the Brandenburg Gate late on Saturday, killing a Polish woman in her 60s and injuring 29 people.<\/p>\n<p>Germany&#8217;s interior minister announced a security overhaul on Monday after the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/article-902834\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">vehicle attack<\/a> prompted an angry debate over why the suspected driver had been freed under supervision of a probation officer and was not in prison.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">The suspect had been convicted and sentenced to jail time in May for preparing a serious act of violence endangering the state.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Though the person in the video was masked, authorities assume it shows the suspected attacker, 21-year-old German citizen&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":136670,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[99],"tags":[112,66074,190,19446,2272,2275],"class_list":["post-136669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-berlin","tag-berlin","tag-car-ramming","tag-germany","tag-islamic-state","tag-terrorism","tag-terrorist"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@dk\/116999184076490047","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136669","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=136669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136669\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/136670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}