{"id":959361,"date":"2026-07-26T00:24:17","date_gmt":"2026-07-26T00:24:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/959361\/"},"modified":"2026-07-26T00:24:17","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T00:24:17","slug":"van-plows-into-crowd-at-berlin-lgbt-festival-killing-1-and-injuring-at-least-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/959361\/","title":{"rendered":"Van plows into crowd at Berlin LGBT festival, killing 1 and injuring at least 15"},"content":{"rendered":"

BERLIN \u2014 A van slammed into people<\/a> gathered for\u00a0Berlin\u2019s famed LGBTQ+ event\u00a0on Saturday, killing one person, injuring at least 15 others and prompting police to call off the celebrations and a concert in the German capital hours after they had begun.<\/p>\n

Police said some of the victims had life-threatening injuries. Firefighters, ambulances and event emergency staffers were attending to the victims.<\/p>\n

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

First responders at the scene of where a driver plowed a van into a crowd at the \u201cChristopher Street Day\u201d LGBT pride celebration in Berlin, Germany on July 25, 2026. dts News Agency Germany\/Shutterstock<\/p>\n

Paramedics giving medical aid to a person on a stretcher in Berlin. REUTERS<\/p>\n

According to police, a white van had driven into the Tiergarten park, which is next to 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<\/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

Police spokesperson Alexander Klute told The Associated Press later that \u201cat this point, we don\u2019t know anything about any possible motives, the identity of the perpetrator or the perpetrators, or anything of that nature.\u201d<\/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\u00a0LGBTQ+\u00a0celebrations.<\/p>\n

Berlin\u2019s mayor Kai Wegner (center) speaking to the media after the incident. AFP via Getty Images<\/p>\n

Two attendees comforting each other at the Christopher Street Day parade. CLEMENS BILAN\/EPA\/Shutterstock<\/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,\u00a0marching through the city\u00a0for hours, dancing to loud music, and cheering the around 80 floats that participated in the parade.<\/p>\n

Julian Miethig, who had attended the LGBTQ+ party at the Brandenburg Gate earlier, said he had just wanted to go to an afterparty 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

The gathering near the Brandenburg Gate earlier in the day on Saturday. ZUMAPRESS.com<\/p>\n

He said he went to Tiergarten and was shocked that something like this could have happened at Berlin\u2019s pride celebrations.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a dark day for the community,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BERLIN \u2014 A van slammed into people gathered for\u00a0Berlin\u2019s famed LGBTQ+ event\u00a0on Saturday, killing one person, injuring at…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":959362,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,45526,10448,117,8724,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,107],"class_list":["post-959361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-america","tag-berlin","tag-gay-pride","tag-germany","tag-lgbtqia","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-newyork","tag-newyorkcity","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa","tag-world-news"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116983435503486253","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/959361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=959361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/959361\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/959362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=959361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=959361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=959361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}