Anger, shock and grief - questions remain in the wake of the Berlin Pride attack

"He was sentenced... under juvenile criminal law," he told RBB TV. "And then, unfortunately, the court handed down a suspended sentence. I don't want to pass judgement on that – that's the independence of the judiciary – but I'm really at a loss for words."The opposition far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party described the attack as a total failure of security policy."If an Islamist threat known to the police was able to carry out such an act, a thorough investigation must be carried out to establish why he was still able to move about freely in the first place," said Martin Hess, the AfD's home affairs spokesperson.According to Der Spiegel, Ballout told the Berlin court this spring that he had distanced himself from extremist ideology and violence.Thomas Mücke, an extremism expert at the Violence Prevention Network VPN, told ARD television that he had met the suspect.He said Ballout had given social workers "a very composed, very cautious, very controlled and very friendly impression"."And those are precisely the criteria where we realise we can't really get to know the person," he continued.Some have called for Germany's laws against terrorism to be made stricter.Peter Neu...