shot dead<\/a> by police on Sunday. Officials said he had attacked officers with a bladed weapon.<\/p>\nThe video that police found was recorded on Saturday, the day of the attack that killed a 65-year-old Polish woman and injured 31 people.<\/p>\n
The person in the video was masked, but Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt said in televised comments, \u201cWe assume the person in the video is the suspect.\u201d<\/p>\n
Investigators were \u201cin the process of accessing and analysing the mobile phone found in the vehicle\u201d, he said, adding that \u201clinks to IS can also be found\u201d on data storage devices found in Ballout\u2019s home.<\/p>\n
Alongside the phone in the van was a sheath for the machete the attacker is thought to have used to attack more people after leaving the vehicle after it crashed into a tree in central Berlin\u2019s Tiergarten park, the German newspaper Bild, which first reported the video, said.<\/p>\n
Ballout, a German citizen with Lebanese roots, was known to the criminal justice system.<\/p>\n
Berlin prosecutors said Ballout travelled to Lebanon in 2025 with the goal of going to Syria to join ISIL. He made contact with several people who were presumed members.<\/p>\n
A Lebanese judicial source told the AFP news agency that Ballout was sentenced to three months in jail there for belonging to ISIL.<\/p>\n
He was detained on his return to Germany and in May was convicted by a juvenile court of \u201cplanning a serious act of subversive violence\u201d and given a suspended jail sentence of one year and 10 months.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Prosecutors say they uncover video of accused Berlin Pride attacker pledging allegiance to ISIL (ISIS). Published On 28…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":965376,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5],"tags":[4219,440,117,214481,5603,50,7207,103],"class_list":["post-965375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-world","tag-crime","tag-europe","tag-germany","tag-isil-isis","tag-lgbtq","tag-news","tag-police","tag-world"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116999746360293447","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/965375","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=965375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/965375\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/965376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=965375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=965375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=965375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}