{"id":61539,"date":"2026-07-26T13:37:18","date_gmt":"2026-07-26T13:37:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/61539\/"},"modified":"2026-07-26T13:37:18","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T13:37:18","slug":"berlin-pride-attack-suspect-is-islamic-state-supporter-german-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/61539\/","title":{"rendered":"Berlin Pride attack suspect is Islamic State supporter: German media"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n      Authorities inspect a white van used by suspect Abdul B. in the attack in Tiergarten park, Berlin [Getty]<\/p>\n<p>The chief suspect in a deadly attack near Berlin&#8217;s Pride parade on Saturday night is a supporter of the so-called <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newarab.com\/news\/lebanon-says-detained-islamic-state-group-commander\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Islamic State (IS) group<\/a> and was previously convicted for related offences, German media reported Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The 21-year-old man named by police as Abdul B. last year travelled to the Middle East in a failed attempt to join IS, according to the Bild and Spiegel newspapers.<\/p>\n<p>This May, he was convicted in Germany of &#8220;preparing a serious act of subversive violence,&#8221; the papers report, but according to Spiegel he received a suspended sentence.<\/p>\n<p>According to Bild, he was arrested in Lebanon while attempting to join IS and sent back to Germany as he is a German citizen.<\/p>\n<p>Spiegel reported that a few weeks ago there was a tip-off that Abdul B. had posted a photo online posing with a weapon.<\/p>\n<p>However, a search of his apartment turned up only a toy replica.<\/p>\n<p>An AFP reporter saw on Sunday that police had been deployed to the suspect&#8217;s alleged address, around one kilometre south of the scene of the attack.<\/p>\n<p>Saturday&#8217;s attack left one woman dead and sixteen people injured, some seriously, and took place just hundreds of metres from the end of the Pride parade route.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Authorities inspect a white van used by suspect Abdul B. in the attack in Tiergarten park, Berlin [Getty]&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":61540,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[18,5,26822,28172],"class_list":["post-61539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-berlin","tag-berlin","tag-germany","tag-islamic-state-group","tag-pride"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61539\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}