“Christopher Street Day” dark in Berlin this Saturday evening, where a vehicle struck the crowd gathered in Tiergarten Park at the end of Pride, leaving one dead and 16 injured, including 11 seriously. Police are seeking a 21-year-old man, suspected of being linked to the “Islamist milieu”.
The events occurred as the LGBT+ Pride march in Berlin was drawing to a close, in the vast Tiergarten park that runs through the German capital. It was around 10 p.m., this Saturday, July 25 of Pride, when a vehicle “of the minivan or small SUV type” sped into the crowd, causing one death and 16 injured, including 11 seriously, according to the firefighters. The German police are searching for a 21-year-old man, Abdul B., suspected of being linked to the “Islamist milieu”.
The notice, published online by the police, shows a man identified as Abdul B., 1.90 meters tall, with black hair and a black hoodie and white pants. It also states that‘“one or more people may have fled” after the events, and that “several people may have been injured by a bladed weapon”.
WATCH: Video shows the vehicle used in the attack at Berlin’s Christopher Street Day (CSD) Pride parade that left 1 dead and 16 injured; suspect remains at large. pic.twitter.com/tDMJCJRRUd
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“Attack on our free and open society”
The impact occurred just a few hundred meters from the heart of the festivities, set up near the Brandenburg Gate, where concerts had been organized since Friday and were planned until Sunday. A large portion of the participants had already left the venue by the time of the incident. Among the 11 seriously injured, three victims were between life and death. About thirty witnesses, shocked, were also taken care of.
The organizers canceled the end of the event and asked participants to go home. Berlin’s mayor, Kai Wegner, condemned an “attack on our free and open society to the world.” The chancellor, Friedrich Merz, promised to shed full light on this “abominable act.”
Berlin’s Pride, called Christopher Street Day (CSD), is one of the largest LGBT+ Pride marches in Europe. Since Saturday morning, more than 2,200 police officers had been deployed to secure the event, which annually brings together hundreds of thousands of people in the German capital.
