{"id":61750,"date":"2026-07-27T00:51:27","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T00:51:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/61750\/"},"modified":"2026-07-27T00:51:27","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T00:51:27","slug":"police-kill-berlin-pride-attack-suspect-after-daylong-manhunt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/61750\/","title":{"rendered":"Police Kill Berlin Pride Attack Suspect After Daylong Manhunt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-testid=\"paragraph-element\" class=\"rich-text mb-6 font-graphik text-body-large text-black-coffee mt-8 focus-visible:outline focus-visible:outline-black-coffee focus-visible:outline-2 focus-visible:outline-offset-2 focus-visible:shadow-focus-color text-left\">Later that evening, Wegner confirmed to German broadcaster rbb that the suspect \u201chad been apprehended.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"paragraph-element\" class=\"rich-text mb-6 font-graphik text-body-large text-black-coffee mt-8 focus-visible:outline focus-visible:outline-black-coffee focus-visible:outline-2 focus-visible:outline-offset-2 focus-visible:shadow-focus-color text-left\">&#8220;The fact that the Berlin police have the suspect within 24 hours is a major success for the investigating authorities,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Who Is Abdul Ballout?<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"paragraph-element\" class=\"rich-text mb-6 font-graphik text-body-large text-black-coffee mt-8 focus-visible:outline focus-visible:outline-black-coffee focus-visible:outline-2 focus-visible:outline-offset-2 focus-visible:shadow-focus-color text-left\">Police on Saturday released <a href=\"https:\/\/www.berlin.de\/polizei\/polizeimeldungen\/2026\/pressemitteilung.1697457.php\" title=\"undefined\" target=\"undefined\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">a photo of the suspect<\/a> who was originally identified only by his first name and last initial, in compliance with German privacy laws. \u201cAbdul B.\u201d was described as a 21-year-old German-born citizen. Police described him as having a slim build, with black hair, and standing approximately 1.9 meters tall (6-foot-2). He was last seen wearing a black hoodie with white pants, per the police report.<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"paragraph-element\" class=\"rich-text mb-6 font-graphik text-body-large text-black-coffee mt-8 focus-visible:outline focus-visible:outline-black-coffee focus-visible:outline-2 focus-visible:outline-offset-2 focus-visible:shadow-focus-color text-left\">Dobrindt said on Sunday that \u201cthe suspect has in the past come to the attention of authorities.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"paragraph-element\" class=\"rich-text mb-6 font-graphik text-body-large text-black-coffee mt-8 focus-visible:outline focus-visible:outline-black-coffee focus-visible:outline-2 focus-visible:outline-offset-2 focus-visible:shadow-focus-color text-left\">\u201cHe has committed various crimes. He has been radicalized in the past. He belongs to the Islamist scene,\u201d Dobrindt <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/reel\/1071498298563318\" title=\"undefined\" target=\"undefined\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">continued<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"paragraph-element\" class=\"rich-text mb-6 font-graphik text-body-large text-black-coffee mt-8 focus-visible:outline focus-visible:outline-black-coffee focus-visible:outline-2 focus-visible:outline-offset-2 focus-visible:shadow-focus-color text-left\">The Berlin Public Prosecutor\u2019s Office released <a href=\"https:\/\/www.berlin.de\/generalstaatsanwaltschaft\/presse\/pressemitteilungen\/2026\/pressemitteilung.1697484.php\" title=\"undefined\" target=\"undefined\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">additional details<\/a> Sunday evening, upon taking over the investigations. It said that Ballout had been found guilty of assaulting a victim in a schoolyard in 2019 and of robbing an individual, along with an accomplice, in 2020. He was then convicted of assault and robbery in juvenile court in 2022.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Later that evening, Wegner confirmed to German broadcaster rbb that the suspect \u201chad been apprehended.\u201d\u00a0 &#8220;The fact that&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":61751,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[18,5,45659,941],"class_list":["post-61750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-berlin","tag-berlin","tag-germany","tag-isis","tag-lgbtq"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61750","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=61750"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61750\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}