Germany says Berlin Pride attack believed to be act of Islamic extremist terror

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German investigators on Sunday hunted a man who allegedly drove a van into a crowd near Berlin’s Pride festival, killing one person and wounding many more, before apparently stabbing others with a machete in what authorities believe was an Islamic extremist terror attack. Authorities issued a wanted notice and warned people against approaching Abdul Ballout, a German citizen with Lebanese roots, saying that he may be armed and dangerous.“Everything we see here points to us dealing with an Islamic terror attack,” Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt said.Dobrindt put the total number of injured at 29.Ashley Jump, a 26-year-old U.K. resident, had traveled to Berlin for Saturday’s Pride parade but had left the celebrations before the attack. They returned Sunday to leave flowers at a memorial near the crime scene in support of the LGBTQ+ community. Story continues below advertisement “They’ll never erase us, we’ll never be gone,” they said. “As long as humanity has existed, we’ve existed. And as long as humanity exists, we will exist. We will not be removed.”Suspect allegedly has ties to Islamic extremismDobrindt said the suspect had come to authorities’ attention in the past because ...

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