A candle burns beside flowers and mementos left at the Brandenburg Gate, after a deadly incident in which a vehicle crashed into a crowd near Berlin’s annual Christopher Street Day Pride parade on July 25, 2026, leaving multiple people injured and the parade called off, in Berlin, Germany.
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The suspect in the deadly Berlin Pride attack that left one person dead and 29 injured was shot and killed by police during a confrontation on Sunday in a suburb of the city, authorities said.
Abdul Ballout, a German citizen with Lebanese roots, was killed following a search that lasted nearly 24 hours after the attack in downtown Berlin. Berlin prosecutors said the suspect had previously sought to join the militant Islamic State group.
A white van had driven into the Tiergarten park around 10 p.m., 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 “definitely a lot of police.”
Overall, more than 2,200 police officers have been on duty in Berlin since Saturday morning (July 25, 2026) to protect the pride parade and other LGBTQ+ events in the city.
Published – July 26, 2026 11:20 pm IST
