BERLIN\u00a0\u2014\u00a0Hamburg\u2019s Pride parade, one of Germany\u2019s biggest, made its way through the port city with increased security on Saturday, a week after a fatal attack near its counterpart in Berlin.<\/p>\n
Police and organizers said that about 300,000 people attended, compared with around 260,000 last year, German news agency DPA reported. Hamburg\u2019s police chief said earlier this week that roughly twice as many officers as last year would protect the event.<\/p>\n
The Hamburg event\u2019s motto this time was \u201cQueer in solidarity. Take a stand \u2014 for a future without fear.\u201d <\/p>\n
A late addition to the dozens of trucks taking part was one representing the Berlin Pride event \u2014 or Christopher Street Day, CSD for short, as the parades are known in Germany. People on that truck were asked to wear dark clothing as a sign of respect for the victims of last weekend\u2019s attack.<\/p>\n
\u201cAfter the brutal attack on the CSD in Berlin, many are unsure in the queer community but also in society whether here and today is the right place,\u201d Hamburg\u2019s deputy mayor, Katharina Fegebank, told RTL television. \u201cI say, now more than ever.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen you look at the atmosphere here, you can see that there\u2019s still joy. At least, that\u2019s how it seems to me,\u201d CSD organizer Manuel Opitz said. \u201cI think we carry the grief in our hearts \u2014 and Berlin in our hearts, too \u2014 but we\u2019re bringing our pride out onto the streets, and you can see that.\u201d<\/p>\n
Late on July 25, a driver plowed a van into people a few hundred yards from the closing party of the Berlin Pride event before attacking others with what appears to have been a machete. A woman was killed and many other people were injured. <\/p>\n
The 21-year-old suspect, Abdul Ballout, was killed in a confrontation with police the next day. Investigators later found a video in which a person believed to be Ballout claimed responsibility and pledged allegiance to the Islamic State group.<\/p>\n
Prosecutors have said Ballout, who was born in Germany and has Lebanese roots, traveled to Lebanon in 2025 with the goal of going to Syria to join Islamic State. He made contact with several people who were presumed members, authorities said. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BERLIN\u00a0\u2014\u00a0Hamburg\u2019s Pride parade, one of Germany\u2019s biggest, made its way through the port city with increased security on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":138984,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[99],"tags":[65671,112,57140,65773,190,8888,66904,19805,31209,1207,3618,20852,2276,25785,1932],"class_list":["post-138983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-berlin","tag-abdul-ballout","tag-berlin","tag-csd","tag-fatal-attack","tag-germany","tag-hamburg","tag-hamburg-pride","tag-islamic-state-group","tag-last-year","tag-people","tag-police","tag-queer","tag-security","tag-truck","tag-week"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@dk\/117021876368578049","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138983","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=138983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138983\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/138984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}