One person died and more than a dozen others were injured after a van rammed into a crowd during an LGBTQ pride parade in Berlin on Saturday.
Police identified the suspect as a man who has ties to Islamic extremist groups and is known to authorities in the German capital. They were still searching for him as of early Sunday morning local time, when police issued a wanted notice naming him as 21-year-old Abdul B.
The 21-year old suspect identified by police as Abdul B. in a public call for his arrest, after a vehicle rammed down the crowd near Berlin’s Pride CSD celebrations on Saturday evening, killing one person and wounding several, in this undated handout photo released by Polizei Berlin on July 26, 2026. Polizei Berlin/Handout via REUTERS. THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN SUPPLIED BY A THIRD PARTY MANDATORY CREDIT. TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY
Berlin police said the man drove a white van into Tiergarten park shortly before 10 p.m. and then crashed into a crowd. Several people were reported to have been injured with “stabbing weapons,” according to the wanted notice. The parade was canceled, and attendees were told to go home.
About one million people attend the event, called the Christopher Street Day parade, to commemorate the 1969 gay uprising against police brutality at Stonewall Inn on New York City’s Christopher Street. The parade winds through Berlin and ends with performances in front of Brandenburg Gate, near the park where the incident occurred.
Police walk next to a vehicle which crashed into a crowd near Berlin’s annual Christopher Street Day Pride parade on Saturday evening, leaving multiple people injured and the parade called off, in Berlin, Germany, July 26, 2026. REUTERS/Annegret Hilse
Police said that 16 people were hurt, several with life-threatening injuries, and that a motive was still being investigated.
In the wanted notice, police described the suspect as about 6 feet and 2 inches tall, of slim build, with black hair and wearing a black hoodie and white pants.
Berlin Mayor Kai Wegner called the incident a brutal attack on the city and said his thoughts were with the victims.
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