On Saturday evening, a 21-year-old identified by authorities as Abdul Ballout and described as a known member of “Islamist circles” in Berlin, plowed a van into a crowd at that city’s Pride event in the Tiergarten, killing one woman and injuring 29 people. After fleeing the scene, the perpetrator was on the loose for several hours before being shot to death on Sunday in the capital’s Spandau district by police whom he had lunged at with a knife.
Baffled by AfD
The German mainstream still pretends to be puzzled by the upstart party.
