One person (a woman) was killed and 16 people were injured when a van struck participants in an LGBT parade in Berlin. These figures were provided by the capital’s police, DW reports. Several of the injured sustained serious wounds.

The newspaper Bild published the first images of the white van that hit people in Tiergarten Park. According to Bild, the white van hit people in Tiergarten Park: it deliberately drove into people before crashing into a tree.

Later, police established the identity of the suspect in the attack on the LGBT parade in Berlin: he is linked to Islamists.

As some eyewitnesses reported, the man driving the van that rammed into the crowd was armed with a bladed weapon. Investigators are also determining whether the attacker acted alone or as part of a group.

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz called the vehicle attack on people a “disgusting crime.” He discussed the tragedy with Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt; they promised to “pursue with particular determination the clarification of all circumstances and the punishment of those responsible,” the German government said.

According to dpa, police are searching for a 21-year-old man who was in a correctional facility until May 2026. Investigators intend to publish photographs of the suspect in the near future. Die Welt уточняет, that the car that struck pride participants had been rented by Abdul B., born in 2005. Sources told the newspaper that the renter of the vehicle is known to police “in a religious context.”

Die Welt also writes that one of the residents of the house where police carried out a search said that the young man had allegedly boasted several months ago about plans to carry out an attack and expressed dissatisfaction with his life in Germany.

According to police, the suspect left the vehicle after the collision and fled. Police are also investigating what happened after that — it is possible that a knife attack took place. Witnesses report that several people suffered stab wounds; some say they saw a man with a machete, n-tv writes.