一名21岁的德国籍男子Abdul Ballout在柏林骄傲游行期间驾驶白色货车冲撞人群，随后持刀继续袭击，造成1人死亡、29人受伤。[1][2]事件发生在2026年7月26日周六晚间约22时，地点位于柏林蒂尔加藤公园附近。[1][2]警方随后在柏林西部追捕该嫌疑人，他在持刀冲向警察时被警方射杀。[1]
Abdul Ballout系德国本地出生、具有德国国籍和黎巴嫩血统的激进分子。[1][2]据悉，他曾于2025年5月试图通过土耳其前往黎巴嫩加入叙利亚的伊斯兰国组织。[1]同年7月在黎巴嫩因煽动宗教和教派冲突被判3个月监禁，并于11月回到德国。[1]今年5月，他因"准备危害国家的严重暴力行为"被判1年10个月监禁，缓期6个月。[1]
德国当局认定此为伊斯兰恐怖袭击。[1][2]内政部长Alexander Dobrindt表示，这名嫌疑人"之前因大量犯罪、激进化和与伊斯兰极端主义势力的联系而引起注意"。[1]德国总理Friedrich Merz强调，"这些极端分子在我们的社会中没有立足之地"，"德国不会让恐怖主义的毒药影响我们的社会"。[1]
A 21-year-old German national of Lebanese descent, Abdul Ballout, carried out an attack on Christopher Street Day celebrations in Berlin on Saturday evening, July 26, 2026, using a white van to strike crowds near the Brandenburg Gate in Tiergarten Park before continuing the assault with a knife-like weapon [1][2]. The attack resulted in one fatality and left 29 people injured, several critically [2]. Police subsequently located and shot Ballout in a garden allotment in the Spandau district of western Berlin on Sunday evening as he charged at officers with a knife [1][2].
German authorities have classified the incident as an Islamist extremist terror attack [2]. Ballout had previously attracted the attention of law enforcement due to multiple convictions and radicalization concerns [1]. In May 2025, he traveled through Turkey to Lebanon in an attempt to join Islamic State forces in Syria, but was arrested in Lebanon in July 2025 for inciting religious and sectarian conflict and sentenced to three months imprisonment [1]. After returning to Germany in November 2025, he was detained at Berlin-Brandenburg Airport and subsequently convicted in May 2026 of preparing serious acts of violence endangering the state, receiving a sentence of one year and ten months with six months suspended, placed under probation supervision [1].
German Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt stated: "We are dealing with a suspect who had previously come to the attention of authorities through numerous criminal acts, radicalization, and links to Islamist extremist forces" [1]. Chancellor Friedrich Merz declared outside a church service that "these extremists have no place in our society" and "Germany will not allow the poison of terrorism to influence our society" [1]. President Frank-Walter Steinmeier characterized the attack as "an assault on our open society, our way of life, and our ability to live together" [2].