Police Hunt 21 Year-Old “Islamist” Suspect After Van Rams Berlin Pride Crowd

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German police are hunting a 21 year-old man after a van ploughed into crowds at Berlin’s Pride parade, killing one person and injuring 17 others. The Telegraph has the story:

The suspect, named by police as Abdul B, is known to authorities “as a member of Islamist circles in Berlin”.

He is described as slim, approximately 1.90 million (6ft 3in) tall, and was seen wearing a black hooded jumper and white trousers.

At least one person was killed and 17 others were injured on Saturday night, including three critically, after a white van mowed down a crowd at the event. There were further reports that people were then stabbed.

Abdul B is alleged to have injured several people with the vehicle in Tiergarten park at around 10pm, before crashing into a tree.

Police said one or more people then fled the vehicle and remain at large.

The force warned the public to avoid direct contact with the suspect, who could be armed and dangerous.

Florian Nath, a Berlin police spokesman, said: “The suspect is known to police. He is known to us as a member of Islamic circles here in Berlin, and our search for this person is proceeding at full speed.”

He added that “we still have no information whatsoever regarding his specific motives, the exact sequence of events or his role in the crime itself”. …

Witnesses described seeing people lying on the ground with stab wounds in the aftermath of the attack, Mr Nath said. …

Hundreds of thousands of people had gathered to celebrate the Christopher Street Day 2026 LGBT parade on Saturday. …

A Berlin senator urged people not to speculate about the incident as he said that it “didn’t happen” at the Gay Pride event itself.

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mrbu
mrbu
1 month ago

1.90 million tall?

marebobowl
marebobowl
1 month ago

Does the uk id their criminals by religion? Why?

RTSC
RTSC
1 month ago

I suppose I shouldn’t commit the cardinal sin of speculating …. but I guess he has mental ‘elf issues.

Definitely nothing to do with hatred of gays or Islam, obv.

Corky Ringspot
Corky Ringspot
1 month ago

I don’t know whether to laugh or laugh.

Tyrbiter
Tyrbiter
1 month ago

Unclear? Not to anyone with any analytical ability.

Marcus Aurelius knew
Marcus Aurelius knew
1 month ago
Reply to  Tyrbiter

Analytical ability is the preserve of Far Right Conspiracy Theorists, hm, OK?

Cosca
Cosca
1 month ago

Don’t be bigoted, he was just sharing the cultural enrichment.

Tonka Rigger
Tonka Rigger
1 month ago

“The motive remains unclear”.

I see that the deductive skills of German Law Enforcement are not what they used to be.

Matt Dalby
Matt Dalby
1 month ago
Reply to  Tonka Rigger

Considering German history I would of thought they’d be the first to realise that when you hate people for who they are because you believe in a crazy ideology you kill them. All the police need to do is work backwards from here to find the motive.

Tyrbiter
Tyrbiter
1 month ago
Reply to  Matt Dalby

What, you mean the Treaty of Versailles?

transmissionofflame
transmissionofflame
1 month ago

I’m having a snack and Sky News is on the TV in the cafe. The subtitles say that the German Chancellor promises that they will defend their freedoms (I don’t think so mate) and the parade organiser says they reject all forms of violence (probably meant to be a dig at the “far right”). Sorted then, job done.

Jonsey_Bach
Jonsey_Bach
1 month ago

The irony of ‘defending their freedom’ when the FSU is intending to set up a German branch to counter the ‘don’t be mean to politicians’ law that I have just been reading about.

transmissionofflame
transmissionofflame
1 month ago
Reply to  Jonsey_Bach

The freedom to get attacked by violent immigrants while giving them welfare and citizenship

MajorMajor
MajorMajor
2 months ago

The BBC goes into great lengths to emphasize that the attacker is a GERMAN citizen.
There you go, all you racist, right wing conspiracy theorists – he could have been any odd Hans, Wilhelm or Jürgen!

Gezza England
Gezza England
1 month ago
Reply to  MajorMajor

Citizenships and passports are handed out like sweeties these days and say nothing about the person’s true nationality and background.

JXB
JXB
2 months ago

Well Dr Schadenfreude, I wonder what you are thinking?

MajorMajor
MajorMajor
2 months ago

One day, in the not too distant future, the “queers for Palestine” people will realize what the majority of Muslims think of them.
Likewise one day the feminist sisterhood will realize that their loathing of white middle class blokes was very much misdirected.
Like the old school communists being dragged to the basement of some NKVD prison, five seconds before the bullet fired from the Makarov pistol at close range hit their heads and put an end to their enthusiasm for communism.

Tonka Fairy
Tonka Fairy
2 months ago

If only there was some real life Sherlock Holmes, or possibly an AI supercomputer available to figure out just why a moslem would want to kill homosexuals.

Jeff Chambers
Jeff Chambers
2 months ago
Reply to  Tonka Fairy

It’s a puzzling mystery, isn’t it. No wonder the West’s rulers can’t figure out what to do about it …

Tyrbiter
Tyrbiter
1 month ago
Reply to  Jeff Chambers

I suppose you could have a massive deletion of a certain book, so that the template for repeated atrocities no longer exists.

This would need to occur worldwide but the effect would take several generations to work.

It’s coming to this.

Tonka Fairy
Tonka Fairy
2 months ago

NTDWI

Nothing to so with islam.

jeepybee
jeepybee
2 months ago

Quite the conundrum for the Be Kind community, this…

Jonsey_Bach
Jonsey_Bach
2 months ago
Reply to  jeepybee

You are assuming that left wing ideology is logically cohesive.It never is. ‘Be kind’ but cancel/imprison those who disagree with you.

‘My body my choice’ with regard to abortion but not with regard to the COVID vaccine.

MajorMajor
MajorMajor
2 months ago
Reply to  Jonsey_Bach

Exactly.
For anybody looking for a coherent leftist ideology, some kind of logical world-view, with concepts like cause and effect: you will be disappointed.
You won’t find anything. Nobody can.
(Believe me, I lived in a communist country where Marxism was taught at seminaries, universities, evening classes. Not a single person, not one managed to make any sense of it.)
There is only one stable principle in leftism: the insane, demonic desire for power.

Jack the dog
Jack the dog
2 months ago
Reply to  jeepybee

Whatever you do, don’t speculate about the motive.

Tyrbiter
Tyrbiter
1 month ago
Reply to  Jack the dog

I speculated about it once, but I think I got away with it.

Matt Dalby
Matt Dalby
1 month ago
Reply to  jeepybee

Especially if some of the victims were members of Poofs for Palestine or whatever these idiots call themselves in Germany.

Mogwai
Mogwai
1 month ago
Reply to  Matt Dalby

”When you are dead, you do not know you are dead. It’s only painful and difficult for others. The same applies when you are stupid.” R. Gervais.

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