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Tuesday, July 28, 2026
Berlin Pride attacker pledged allegiance to Islamic State, say prosecutors
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The man blamed for the deadly attack near Berlin’s Pride parade over the weekend pledged allegiance to the Islamic State group in a video, prosecutors tell AFP.
The video clip was found on the phone of Abdul Rahman Ballout, 21, and was recorded on Saturday, the day of the attack that killed a 65-year-old Polish woman and injured 31 people, they say, confirming media reports.
A Public Prosecutor’s Office spokesperson tells AFP that the clip shows a masked individual, presumed to be Ballout, pledging allegiance to ISIS.
The Bild daily reported that Ballout’s phone was found inside the rented minivan the attacker plowed into a crowd near the parade before he crashed it into a tree in the Tiergarten park.
Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt then said in televised comments that “we assume the person in the video is the suspect.”
Investigators were “in the process of accessing and analyzing the mobile phone found in the vehicle,” he said, adding that “links to ISIS can also be found” on data storage devices found in Ballout’s home.
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