{"id":1111239,"date":"2026-07-25T22:45:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-25T22:45:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1111239\/"},"modified":"2026-07-25T22:45:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-25T22:45:13","slug":"1-dead-several-hurt-when-a-van-drives-into-lgbtq-event-in-berlin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1111239\/","title":{"rendered":"1 dead, several hurt when a van drives into LGBTQ+ event in Berlin"},"content":{"rendered":"

BERLIN (AP) \u2014 A van drove into a crowd during Berlin\u2019s famed LGBTQ+ event<\/a> on Saturday, killing one person and injuring at least 15, prompting police to call off the celebrations and a concert in the German capital hours after it had begun.<\/p>\n

Police said some of the victims had life-threatening injuries. Firefighters and ambulances were out with many emergency staffers at the scene to attend to the victims.<\/p>\n

In a post on X, police called on everyone to leave the site of the event immediately.<\/p>\n

According to police, a white van had driven into the Tiergarten park, which was just off the route that the pride march had passed along earlier, and hit several people before colliding with a tree. Police could not say how many officers had been deployed to the scene but that it was \u201cdefinitely a lot of police.\u201d They said they were searching for suspects.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are conducting an intensive search for possible suspects,\u201d police officer Florian Nath said on a short video released on the Berlin police account on X.<\/p>\n

Hundreds of thousands of people had come to Berlin on Saturday to celebrate at Berlin\u2019s pride parade, known in Germany as Christopher Street Day. It\u2019s one of Europe\u2019s largest LGBTQ+<\/a> celebrations.<\/p>\n

The pride event in front of the city\u2019s iconic Brandenburg Gate in the downtown, near Tiergarten, was called off around 10:15 p.m. 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

Before the incident, people had celebrated peacefully, marching through the city<\/a> for hours, dancing to loud music, and cheering the around 80 floats that participated in the parade. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BERLIN (AP) \u2014 A van drove into a crowd during Berlin\u2019s famed LGBTQ+ event on Saturday, killing one…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1111240,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5310],"tags":[2574,2000,299,303002,4179,1824,2003,5763,388,263],"class_list":["post-1111239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-germany","tag-berlin","tag-eu","tag-europe","tag-florian-nath","tag-general-news","tag-germany","tag-law-enforcement","tag-lgbtq","tag-lifestyle","tag-world-news"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116983046208266290","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1111239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1111239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1111239\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1111240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1111239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1111239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1111239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}