Newsletters
At least one person was killed and around 15 others wounded after a car drove into a crowd on the outskirts of Berlin's Christopher Street Day parade on Saturday evening, police said, as investigators hunted for the vehicle's occupants.
The vehicle entered Tiergarten park and struck several people just before 10:00 pm local time, police said in a post on social media. Officers later confirmed they had found the car they believed was involved, abandoned inside the park, but said they were still searching for those who had been in it.
Police spokesman Florian Nath said some of the survivors had been "seriously" injured and were being treated by emergency services. An AFP journalist at the scene counted at least 10 emergency vehicles, with a tent erected in the road and officers patrolling a wide stretch of the park.
Police told participants to leave, posting "Go home, please" and sealing off the area where people had been struck. An eyewitness near the main stage at the Brandenburg Gate said the crowd complied and began dispersing around 11:00 pm. The programme at the main stage had been scheduled to continue until midnight.
Hundreds of thousands of people had taken part in the day's march, which had ended near the Brandenburg Gate, the site of concerts since Friday.
Saturday's attack is the latest in a series of violent incidents at public gatherings in Germany in recent years. In February 2025, a stabbing occurred at Berlin's Holocaust memorial, a short distance from Saturday's scene. A 20-year-old Syrian man was sentenced in March to 13 years in prison for that attack, in which a Spanish tourist was seriously injured.
Last month, a Saudi psychiatrist was sentenced to life in prison for killing six people and wounding more than 300 when he drove a rented SUV through a Christmas market in the eastern city of Magdeburg in 2024. The deadliest such attack in recent years remains the truck rampage at a Berlin Christmas market in December 2016, which killed 12 people.
Set as preferred source
Set as preferred source
1 min read
