{"id":568244,"date":"2026-07-26T00:32:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-26T00:32:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/568244\/"},"modified":"2026-07-26T00:32:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T00:32:10","slug":"one-killed-15-hurt-as-car-drives-into-berlin-pride-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/568244\/","title":{"rendered":"One killed, 15 hurt as car drives into Berlin Pride event"},"content":{"rendered":"

At least one person was killed and around 15 wounded after a car hit the crowd on the outskirts of the Berlin Gay Pride parade.<\/p>\n

“A vehicle entered the Tiergarten park and hit several people and injured them” just before 10:00 pm local time, police posted on social media, later adding that they were hunting for the occupants of the car.<\/p>\n

Police spokesman Florian Nath said some of the survivors had been “seriously” injured and were being treated by the emergency services.<\/p>\n

Police told AFP they had found the car they thought had been involved in the incident abandoned in the Tiergarten park.<\/p>\n

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\nThe Berlin Pride event was cut short as police asked people to go home<\/p>\n

The Gay Pride event was cut short and police told participants to “Go home, please” and sealed off the area where the people were injured.<\/p>\n

An eyewitness by the main Pride stage at Brandenburg Gate said the crowd complied with the request to leave and head away from the park shortly at around 11:00pm.<\/p>\n

The programme at the main stage had been scheduled to continue until midnight.<\/p>\n

An AFP journalist in the area saw at least 10 emergency service vehicles at the scene and a tent set up in the road.<\/p>\n

Police officers could be seen patrolling the huge area of the park.<\/p>\n

Violent attacks<\/p>\n

Earlier, hundreds of thousands of people took part in the event, called Christopher Street Day in Germany.<\/p>\n

The march ended next to the Brandenburg Gate, which has been the venue for concerts since yesterday.<\/p>\n

Germany has in recent years seen several violent attacks at public spaces, including a stabbing in February 2025 at Berlin’s Holocaust memorial, a stone’s throw from the scene oftoday’s incident.<\/p>\n

A 20-year-old Syrian man named only as Wassim Al M. was jailed in March for 13 years for that attack, in which a Spanish tourist was seriously injured.<\/p>\n

Last month Taleb Jawad al-Abdulmohsen, a 51-year-old Saudi psychiatrist, was sentenced to life in prison for killing six people and wounding more than 300.<\/p>\n

He drove a rented SUV through a crowded Christmas market in 2024 in the eastern city of Magdeburg.<\/p>\n

Abdulmohsen was an anti-Islam activist and his testimony at his trial was sometimes incoherent and riddled with conspiracy theories and fringe far-right ideas.<\/p>\n

The deadliest such attack in recent years was a truck rampage at a Berlin Christmas market in December 2016 that killed 12 people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"At least one person was killed and around 15 wounded after a car hit the crowd on the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":568245,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-568244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=568244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568244\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/568245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=568244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=568244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=568244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}