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\n A forensic investigator carries a body believed to be of the suspect of the Berlin Pride attack after, according to authorities, he was shot and killed by police during a confrontation on Sunday in a Berlin suburb. Alamy Stock Photo<\/p>\n
A MAN SUSPECTED of carrying out the Berlin Pride attack that left one person dead and 29 injured has been shot dead by police during a confrontation in a suburb of the city.<\/p>\n
Abdul Ballout, a German citizen with Lebanese roots, was killed on Sunday evening following a manhunt that lasted nearly 24 hours after the attack in central Berlin.<\/p>\n
Prosecutors said the suspect had previously sought to join the so-called Islamic State group.<\/p>\n
Authorities had issued a wanted notice and warned people against approaching Ballout, saying that he may be armed and dangerous.<\/p>\n
Authorities said he is believed to have injured people with a van in a park near the pride festival\u2019s closing party. Several people were also apparently stabbed.<\/p>\n
Germany\u2019s interior minister Alexander Dobrindt said the suspect is believed to have injured people with a machete.<\/p>\n
\n A forensic investigator carries a body believed to be of the suspect of the Berlin Pride attack after, according to authorities, he was shot and killed by police during a confrontation on Sunday in a Berlin suburb. Alamy Stock Photo<\/p>\n
Alamy Stock Photo\n<\/p>\n
\u201cEverything we see here points to us dealing with an Islamic terror attack,\u201d Dobrindt said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe suspect is known to police. He is known to us as a member of Islamic circles here in Berlin, and our search for this person is proceeding at full speed,\u201d said police spokesperson Florian Nath, adding that investigators had no information on \u201chis specific motives\u201d.<\/p>\n
Julian Miethig, who had attended the pride festival nearby, said he wanted to go to an after-party when he heard from a friend that \u201csomething bad happened there and there are a lot of fire trucks, a lot of emergency vehicles, ambulances\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s a dark day for the community,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
According to police, a white van drove into the Tiergarten park at about 10pm and hit several people before colliding with a tree.<\/p>\n
The closing party at the festival, known as Christopher Street Day, was continuing at the time next to the Brandenburg Gate, a short distance away, after a parade with some 80 floats which had made its way through Berlin earlier in the day.<\/p>\n
Police said a woman was killed.<\/p>\n
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\n he vehicle used to ram into a crowd at the Pride March is removed in Berlin. Alamy Stock Photo<\/p>\n
Alamy Stock Photo\n<\/p>\n
Berlin\u2019s fire service said that three people sustained life-threatening injuries, another eight were seriously injured and five had slight injuries.<\/p>\n
The event next to the Brandenburg Gate was called off at about 10.15pm and a band\u2019s performance on stage was interrupted. People were urged to go home and to avoid taking the route through the park.<\/p>\n
One of the presenters at the party, Ricarda Hofmann, wrote in an Instagram post that she had been there \u201cnot just as a moderator, but as part of a community that comes together to be visible. To celebrate love. To stand up for each other\u201d.<\/p>\n
She said the attack left her speechless. \u201cWhat happened today has changed something in me,\u201d she wrote.<\/p>\n
Hundreds of thousands of people had gone to Berlin to celebrate on Saturday, though it is unclear how many were still at the festival by late evening. It is one of Europe\u2019s largest LGBT celebrations.<\/p>\n
The van, with its battered front resting against a tree, could still be seen at the scene on Sunday.<\/p>\n
Chancellor Friedrich Merz described what happened as \u201can attack on our society\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat an abhorrent act in Berlin,\u201d Merz wrote in a post on X. He added that Germany loves freedom, \u201cand we will preserve and defend that\u201d.<\/p>\n
In the neighbouring Netherlands, Amsterdam is hosting World Pride this week and next alongside its own annual celebrations.<\/p>\n
Mayor Femke Halsema said authorities and organisers \u201care closely monitoring the security situation\u201d after the Berlin attack.<\/p>\n
She said security was always high for such events and extra measures will be added where necessary, \u201cwhich visitors will hopefully notice as little as possible. Because we don\u2019t want to be scared and we want to be able to celebrate freedom and being able to be who you are and love who you want to\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A MAN SUSPECTED of carrying out the Berlin Pride attack that left one person dead and 29 injured…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":607428,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[41],"tags":[256525,25123,256526,9,10,13,14,6621,6,11,12,15,16,5,1186,7,8,65,66,67],"class_list":["post-607427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-world","tag-abdul-ballout","tag-berlin","tag-berlin-pride-attack","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-featured-news","tag-featurednews","tag-germany","tag-headlines","tag-latest-news","tag-latestnews","tag-main-news","tag-mainnews","tag-news","tag-none","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories","tag-world","tag-world-news","tag-worldnews"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116995075586262253","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=607427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607427\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/607428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=607427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=607427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=607427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}