By Lena Roche
Published on •Updated
A car ploughed into a crowd celebrating Berlin’s Christopher Street Day Pride event on Saturday night, killing one person and leaving at least 16 others injured.
The incident occurred at around 10 pm. Three people remain in a life-threatening condition.
According to initial information, a vehicle drove into a crowd on Lennéstrasse. The car then collided with a tree before the suspect apparently managed to flee.
Berlin police have since announced that they had identified a suspect who they said is “known to the police” and “believed to be associated with Islamist circles.”
Police have released a photo of the suspect and named him as 21-year-old Abdul B.
They warned people not to approach him as he may be “armed and dangerous.”
“What a despicable act in Berlin,” German Chancellor Friedrich Merz wrote in a statement published on social media.
“Hundreds of thousands of people from all over the world were celebrating peacefully at Christopher Street Day. They wanted us to treat one another with kindness and tolerance,” he said. “This is an attack on our society”.
The Pride parade was cancelled after the incident.
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