On Sunday, July 26th German police shot and killed the main suspect behind a vehicular attack on a Berlin Pride event.
The day before his capture, Abdul Ballout deployed terror tactics experienced by multiple European cities. Ramming a van into a section of the crowd, the suspect then left the vehicle to attack revellers with a knife. One woman died, while at least 29 suffered serious injuries.
Ballout then fled the crime scene near the capital’s Tiergarten park and headed west. The 21-year-old was discovered hiding on an allotment in the borough of Spandau, whereupon he attempted with a ‘bladed weapon’ to harm police officers, who then opened fire.
On Sunday night, suspecting an “Islamist terror attack,” German Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt confirmed
We are dealing with a suspected perpetrator, who had previously drawn attention to himself through a high volume of criminal offences, radicalisation and affiliation with the Islamist scene.
The alleged killer’s criminal history in Lebanon and Germany raises serious issues for the authorities, as he was on parole and in a deradicalisation programme at the time—following a terror conviction in 2025. Alternative für Deutschland lawmaker Martin Hess described this as “a complete failure of the government’s security policies.”
The willingness of Islamists to attack homosexual-themed public events also calls into question, again, the ‘suicidal empathy’ behind campaigns such as ‘Queers for Palestine.’
