The Islamist being sought for a deadly ramming attack on a gay-pride parade in Berlin has been killed by police.
Abdul Ballout, a German citizen of Lebanese descent, was shot and killed by police on Sunday, after a nationwide manhunt.
“Around 6 p.m., the suspect in yesterday’s attack in the Großer Tiergarten was located in an allotment garden facility in Spandau,” a spokesperson for the Berlin Police revealed in an X post on July 26.
“According to current findings, he is said to have rushed toward our emergency forces with a stabbing weapon, after which police firearms were used by our SEK Berlin.”
Ballout died at the scene.
Authorities believe Ballout was an Islamist who sought to join ISIS.
“Everything we see here points to us dealing with an Islamic terror attack,” Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt said.
Ballout used a white car to ram revellers in the Großer Tiergarten area of the city at around 10pm on Saturday.
One person was killed and 16 others were injured. Several have life-threatening injuries.
The event was a Christopher Street Day pride parade. The event is one of the largest LGBT events in Europe, and hundreds of thousands of people were in attendance along the parade’s route.
Berlin Mayor Kai Wegner denounced the incident as “an attack on our free and open society.”
“After a peaceful and colorful CSD, the assembly for a tolerant and peaceful Berlin was attacked in the most brutal way. Berlin is the city of freedom—and our freedom has been attacked in the most horrific way today. My thoughts are with the victims, their families and friends.”
Germany has been subject to a number of car-ramming attacks in recent years.
In May, two people were killed and several were wounded by a driver in Leipzig.
In December 2024, a Saudi Arabian man rammed visitors to a Christmas market in Magdeburg. Five were killed and more than 200 were injured.
Taleb al-Abdulmohsen was convicted and sentenced in June to life in prison for the attack.
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Talking heads just only seem to be just that, talking heads.
They are so damn slow to point out the obvious.
And the media goes ohhh and ahhhh, like some kind of wet dream.
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If the disease had been eradicated, Berlin would not have descended back into 1920s levels of degeneracy.