As we reported in an earlier update, the man suspected of driving the van that plowed into a gay pride event in Berlin yesterday has been located and shot to death by Berlin police.
Abdul Rahman Ballout (21), born in Germany in 2005 to a Lebanese mother, was hiding in a garden area of the Berlin suburb of Spandau. Police surrounded the plot and shot Ballout when he reportedly charged at them with a knife or other bladed weapon.
The gardens described in the article below are small garden plots that people who do not have gardens can rent and plant whatever they want.
The article below from NIUS is translated by Fousesquawk.
Raid on Berlin garden shed! Police shoot attacker Abdul Rahman Ballout
26 July 2026 at 10:55
After the Islamist terror attack at the edge of the Christopher Street Days (CSD) in Berlin, the suspect Abdul Rahman Ballout was killed by police. That is confirmed by the Senate Interior Administration. The garden shed in which Ballout was shot reportedly belongs to his father.
Special forces surrounded a garden plot before they moved in, according to the above information. According to BILD's information, Ballout reportedly came at the forces with a bladed weapon. The police then opened fire. The 21-year-old was hit and died from his injuries at 18:34.
Witnesses told BILD that during the raid on the Berlin garden shed, they heard 2 salvos of 4 shots each, a few minutes apart. Other witnesses reported to the newspaper that the police forces surrounded the small garden allotment around 3 pm and closed off the area. Around 6 pm, the raid took place.
According to Federal Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt (CSU), a woman (29) was killed and 29 people were injured in the attack on Saturday by car followed by a machete. According to police in the afternoon, they are no longer in life-threatening condition.
Public manhunt
In the morning, the police had released a photo, with which they were searching for the 21-year-old Abdul Rahman Ballout. The alleged perpetrator, according to security authorities, had been radicalized and was part of the Islamist scene, as Dobrindt said. The man had already come to the notice (of police). Dobrindt mentioned a "large number of crimes" and the "Islamist radicalization" of the 21-year-old.
In the past year, Abdul Rahman Ballout tried several times to join the terror militia, Islamic State (IS).
In the past, the accused reportedly was sentenced to 1 year and 10 months of probation, the interior minister said. The state prosecutor's office appealed that. In the proceeding, according to the State Prosecutor's office, Ballout had largely confessed and distanced himself from IS.
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