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.
UPDATE:
Update – They have found, shot, & killed him (source: DW) https://t.co/JBpSLku4OX
— Dan Levy ✡ דניאל אליהו בן מאניש דוד (@TheDanLevy) July 26, 2026
2 Dead, 29 Injured
German police are hunting a member of the ‘Islamist scene’ after a van was driven into a crowd of people at a Pride parade in Berlin, killing at least one person.
The ‘brutal attack’ happened on Saturday evening just hours after the city’s annual Christopher Street Day (CSD) pride event began, with thousands in attendance for the celebration.
Police said a white van charged through the city’s central Tiergarten Park, near the Brandenburg Gate. Witnesses said several people were hit before the van crashed into a tree and the driver fled on foot.
Berlin Pride Attack – Twitter/X
Wow shocker. A Muslim refugee has rammed a ‘Car of Peace’ into a gay pride event in Berlin, Germany.
Queers for Palestine retards currently nowhere to be found. Strange. pic.twitter.com/QFzjuSq3Vq
— Jaimee Michell (@JaimeeUSA) July 25, 2026
❗️A car plowed into a crowd at an LGBTQ+ Pride parade in Berlin, killing one person and injuring at least 16 others
According to police, one or more suspects fled the vehicle after the attack. Several people were also reportedly stabbed.
Police are searching for 21-year-old… pic.twitter.com/4u1ZCpgZAx
— NEXTA (@nexta_tv) July 26, 2026
From BBC – What we know so far about the Berlin Pride ramming attack
From DW – cornered into telling the truth for a change – Germany classifies Berlin Pride ramming as ‘terror attack’
A man suspected of fatally shooting six child welfare workers at a shelter for mothers in Stade in northern Germany last month died by suicide in jail on Tuesday.
The suspect, who has been partially identified in German media as 45-year-old Fatih Khan G., was found dead by jail staff in his single cell early Tuesday, the Lower Saxony state justice ministry said in a statement.
The ministry said there are ‘currently no indications of third-party involvement’ in the suspect’s death at the jail, and that both his relatives and the relatives of the shooting victims had been informed.
Dr Rainer Zitelmann doesn’t even remember posting the meme on social media that nearly landed him in prison.
“When I opened the letter from police, I thought it was a misunderstanding,” Dr Zitelmann, a German historian and author of about 30 books, told The Telegraph.
Berlin police told Dr Zitelmann he had been accused of violating a post-Second World War law that bans the display of Nazi symbols, slogans and imagery – and could now face three years in prison if found guilty.
A flight from Turkey to Düsseldorf became the scene of a violent altercation—with a ‘culture clash’ at the heart of the conflict.
In the early hours of June 1, a male passenger refused to take his assigned seat with Turkish Airlines because it would mean him sitting next to a woman. He explicitly cited Sharia law to justify his actions. When a female flight attendant approached the man to address his non-compliance and defuse the situation, the confrontation quickly escalated.
Oliver Blume, the 58-year-old chief executive of Volkswagen Group, has lived and breathed the mighty German car industry for three decades.
After training as an engineer, he began his career in the body shop of Audi, honing his skills at a time when German cars were still the first and last word in automotive excellence.
He surely couldn’t have imagined, or wanted, his stellar VW trajectory to end up like it did last week.
Deutsche Bahn, Germany’s state-owned railway operator, appears to be facing a growing sabotage problem.
According to a leaked internal report, the company recorded around 2,200 cases of sabotage targeting railway infrastructure during the first six months of 2026, a 7% increase compared with the same period last year.
The incidents include arson, vandalism, and theft that causes significant damage to railway infrastructure and disrupts train services, costing taxpayers increasing amounts to repair each year.
Germany’s domestic intelligence agency could soon be authorised to secretly alter digital data, hack into private computers and mobile phones, enter homes without occupants’ knowledge, recruit 16- and 17-year-olds as informants, and never inform citizens that they had been subjected to surveillance.
The draft law, prepared by Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt, would dramatically expand the powers of the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (Bundesamt für Verfassungsschutz, BfV), Germany’s domestic intelligence agency.
The number of young men applying to be conscientious objectors and refuse armed military service in Germany has risen sharply this year, undermining a drive by Berlin to create Europe’s strongest conventional army and deter the Russian threat.
More people had applied to exclude themselves from service on religious or moral grounds in the first half of 2026 than in the whole of last year, according to figures provided by the government on Tuesday.
During its state party congress in Saxony-Anhalt over the weekend, AfD unveiled its government program for the first hundred days after the September election, with polls suggesting that it could form a single-party government at the state level for the first time.
In line with voter expectations, migration is among the most important points that AfD wants to tackle head-on. The 100-day program includes “deportations from minute one,” and pledges that “all available options” will be used to deport as many illegal migrants as possible, something that both the CDU’s local and federal governments have failed to deliver on for years.
The share of foreigners involved in gang rapes hit a record high in 2025, reaching 53 percent. A total of 751 victims were gang-raped in the country. The data comes from a response by the German federal government to a parliamentary request by the Alternative for Germany (AfD).
At the protests against the Alternativ für Deutschland’s (AfD) party conference in Erfurt last weekend, a reporter for Apollo News was chased through the crowd and kicked in the head. He suffered a bloody wound. The next day, representatives of the anti-AfD alliance ‘Widersetzen’ were asked repeatedly if they condemned the attack. Initially they refused. Eventually, one activist replied: “Fascists with a press pass are still fascists.”
In Germany, the trains have stopped running on time, bridges have been shut over safety fears, and the country’s largest carmaker, Volkswagen, is cutting a sixth of its workforce. The government’s response amounts to a shrug, dressed up as reform. It seems like Germany is on a bad streak – and the AfD looks set to reap the rewards.
Take the railways, the infamous Deutsche Bahn. A few weeks ago, they ground to a total halt. Every train in the country stood still, because the radio system that lets drivers talk to signal boxes – a system that appears to date, in spirit if not in silicon, from the Kaiserreich – simply stopped working. For several hours, nothing moved on the tracks of Europe’s largest economy.
Several people were wounded and a suspect was arrested in an apparent violent attack at a secondary school in the southern German state of Bavaria on Wednesday, police said.
‘A suspected perpetrator has been arrested,’ local police confirmed in a post on X.
‘The number of people involved and the severity of the injuries are currently being clarified.’
An einem Gymnasium im oberbayerischen Schongau sind mehrere Menschen verletzt worden. Nach Angaben der Polizei wurde ein mutmaßlicher Täter nach dem Vorfall am Welfen-Gymnasium festgenommen. https://t.co/WhzgAeRc14 pic.twitter.com/EKeFxDnbt9
— NIUS (@niusde_) July 8, 2026
Update: Perp is Croatian background, was in psychiatric care and may be an ex-student of the school
Organisers of the left-wing radical alliance Widersetzen (‘Resist’) have refused to condemn attacks on right-wing journalists following large-scale demonstrations held during the Alternative für Deutschland’s (AfD) federal party congress in Erfurt.
More than 31,000 people took part in protests across the Thuringian capital on the weekend, which were organised to disrupt the AfD’s congress and block participants from attending.
🔴 Drei Reporter von Apollo News wurden in Erfurt aus einer Antifa-Demo heraus gejagt und zusammengeschlagen.
Als sie die Demonstration filmten wurden sie von ca. einem Dutzend Personen verfolgt und zu Boden geschlagen, als sie am Boden lagen wurde immer wieder nachgetreten… pic.twitter.com/yICrfMvtXo
— Max Mannhart (@maxmannhart) July 4, 2026
