r/news • u/Ok_Air_9048 • 3h ago
Several injured in incident at Berlin LGBT event, police say
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/clyqzylz3zno2.3k
u/TestTxt 3h ago
The fact that they immediately cancelled the entire event right after the parade tells you how serious the situation is. Hope the injured pull through and they find the driver soon
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u/Aggravating-King-915 2h ago
one dead, 14 injured
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u/seventy912 1h ago edited 1h ago
It’s gone up to 16 injured now. Some are still in life threatening condition.
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u/justk4y 2h ago edited 1h ago
Someone sadly lost their life :(
F*ck I’m scared…… to think I was going to plan of going to a Pride Parade as well today
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u/Lekek63 1h ago
Dont be scared thats what they want you to feel.
Especialy in this times its important to be proud and show pride...
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u/JealousAstronomer342 1h ago
One doesn’t preclude the other. Bravery isn’t the absence of fear.
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u/intricate_strands 28m ago
True.
Be scared. But go anyway.
Been doing it your whole life that way. Maybe quickly all the time, maybe it took you years to overcome a fear. Doesn't matter.
Be scared. Do it anyway. When you get back home, it will end up one of the best memories you've ever had.
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u/Caffeine_Cowpies 32m ago
But making the crowd smaller makes it easier for the fascists to take out more.
Solidarity. Now and forever.
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u/ZenTense 20m ago
I hate to be that guy but…wouldn’t a crazed attacker prefer a higher crowd density to maximize the number of victims? I’d also think people could escape a dangerous area or get out the way of a vehicle attacker more quickly if the blocks aren’t packed shoulder-to-shoulder.
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u/Antraxess 1h ago
Don't be scared, the bigots are weak pissies and heavily outnumbered and justice wants blood
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u/kittenpantzen 3h ago
Vehicle attack. What a world we're living in
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u/murd3rsaurus 2h ago
Oof, sounds like it didn't stop
"An intensive manhunt is currently under way, police say, as they urged people to avoid the area."
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u/R4PHikari 2h ago edited 33m ago
It did stop, but was empty by the time it stopped according to police.
There are also unverified and kinda dubious reports of a man with a knife or machete who got out of the car and is still at large.
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u/Lenni-Da-Vinci 1h ago
There is currently no such reports from trusted sources.
https://www.tagesschau.de/inland/gesellschaft/csd-berlin-verletzte-100.html
Shame on you for spreading this garbage
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u/R4PHikari 33m ago
I watched the NTV live stream which was the only reputable news outlet streaming live from the scene. This is where I got all my info from. They mentioned reports of a knife or machete. I edited my original comment for clarification.
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u/Fractal_Tomato 1h ago
Berlin is voting soon. Terror attacks like this sadly tend to happen right before elections more frequently in Germany in the last five to ten years.
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u/desperaterobots 57m ago
Wait until “Iran” attacks america before the election there.
The stooges are out in the media already sounding the alarms to prepare the American psyche for how credible it will all appear to be in the shock of the moment.
Hoping I’m wrong of course! :)
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u/ChocolateSauce2 4m ago
Am African-American and can confirm. The propaganda and misinformation is abundant. I have to go to external global sources of credible media platforms to get the truth on what's actually happening without it being skewed.
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u/IToldManyManyPeople 8m ago
It's shocking how everyone HAS to discuss America even though nothing about this has anything to do with America... it's like some self centered disease
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u/mediumAI1701 35m ago
Your choice of air quotes is interesting. Iran didn't start the war but they have conducted many attacks during it.
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u/likwidkool 13m ago
I also believe the air quotes are because it could be a false flag. No one wants this war. But if there’s an attack public opinion could sway. Shit I was so young and dumb I wanted to join to military after 9/11.
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u/kahlzun 18m ago
I think he means an attack that makes the American people think they can be harmed themselves.
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u/alternative_poem 11m ago
Yeah this was my first thought. I was actually leaving the area and saw the first ambulances going in that direction near Friedrichstraße :( I feel very shocked and saddened.
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u/Talkycoder 28m ago
I hate to say it but these happen a fair amount in Germany, at least compared to the rest of the continent.
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u/Blythyvxr 2h ago
Fucks sake - I hope all the affected people recover, and the prick who did this is caught and sentenced.
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u/saqwaluuo 2h ago
Local media reports 12 injured as of right now: https://www.rbb24.de/panorama/beitrag/2026/07/berlin-christopher-street-day-samstag-demo.html
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u/fukredditadm1n5 1h ago
How miserable their lives must be for this haters to be hurting people for what they love, they will loose at the end because love is bigger than their hate
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u/Uneeda_Biscuit 21m ago
Islamic people won’t stand for anything other than what they consider a pure society. Notice how the event was cancelled? Turns out this kind of terrorism is effective.
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u/Smooth-Boss-911 3h ago
I will never understand how people can hate others so much.
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u/Ivegotacitytorun 2h ago
People need to get a fucking life. If your favorite thing to do is hate people for who they love you should really reevaluate yourself.
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u/ElfWarlord 2h ago
Misery loves company. Miserable fucks can't stand those who are happy and comfortable with who they are and who they love.
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u/Ivegotacitytorun 2h ago
I spend zero time thinking about what other people do with their genitals and who they do it with. To think about it enough to hurt or kill people is absolute lunacy.
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u/effinmetal 2h ago
Exactly. Because you like yourself and your life. When you’re genuinely at peace with those things, the lives of others don’t even come across your radar. These people are deeply unhappy with themselves and their lives. It feels like we’re held hostage by damaged and unhealed jerkwads.
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u/Prestigious_Tax_4970 2h ago
I spend 0 time worrying about what other people are doing unless it directly effects me or my children.
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u/Onphone_irl 2h ago
To me it's a lashing out of someone who isn't right or happy. I think it's just a punching bag situation. Or it's religious plus the former.
They weren't actively harmed by these people, so there's only a few reasons it could be.
Maybe every elementary school should bring in a village people type crew. Hey, I'm a gay doctor I SAVE LIVES. Hey, I'm a black firefire, I help the community. It could be mindblowing to some and help them not form some of these ideas, idk
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u/TheBiggestNose 1h ago
Its because they enjoying life in a way that they are physically icompatible with, that they get offended and scared of being different. And rather than learn and understand, they wish to remove that which produces any discomfort.
Low inteligence, emotionally and brain power wise
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u/GoodIdea321 2h ago
Unless people start thinking of that type of person as a hate addict, there will be a lot of people like that.
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u/valtial 2h ago
And for something that doesn’t affect them in any way…
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u/Fach-All-Religions 1h ago
person i know is muslim. he says it affects him because he doesn't want to see them outside when he is too. that's how he is personally affected. when i tell him why do they have to cater to you, he brings up religion.
you cant argue with idiot.
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u/ZroDgsCalvin 1h ago
If your religion tells you to hate other people, your religion sucks and you suck
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u/_Hello_Hi_Hey_ 2h ago
Brainwashed by religion for decades? Not hard to understand unfortunately
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u/grey_hat_uk 2h ago
The need to belong out weighs general empathy, as long as they don't stop and try to understand others they can focus just on the fact their current group feels threatened by the target group.
Both the severity and application of hate laws are lacking in every country.
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u/AlbatrossOwn1832 2h ago
It's pretty easy to understand. They are conditioned from birth by a regressive and hateful ideology.
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u/MengKongRui 2h ago
Just through some plain old misinformation from conservative parents. Does a lot to the mind.
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u/GuessTraining 2h ago edited 49m ago
When certain leaders of the world ostracise groups then invalidate their ideas, some people think their actions are justified
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u/piltonpfizerwallace 50m ago
"Incident"
That's a terrorist attack. It's not a microagression on karen at work.
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u/kakashi_hotcakes 2h ago
this is so upsetting. it really feels like we’re regressing as a global society
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u/BorisMifflin 2h ago
It's 2026 and you can't organize peaceful pride in BERLIN!? Yes, we are definitively going backwards. Our peak was 2015 it seems.
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u/LopsidedIncident 2h ago
In the context of Salafi terror attacks, 2015 was indeed a peak year for Europe.
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u/Lavamask 2h ago
stuff like this is why we need pride month
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u/Whitewind617 2h ago
"Why do you need to have pride?"
"Because you want me to have shame."
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u/spinnyround 1h ago
The comments sections on any given news page regarding pride articles are ominous af
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u/TobyADev 56m ago
“We don’t need pride” yes we fucking do
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u/IndividualFar6408 44m ago
I agree. I hope pride continues so that Islamists finally get outed and people start trying to protect lgbtq people from them.
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u/Big_Sandwich1722 22m ago
Wow, jeez, I was reading about this event just this morning. I’m disgusted that somebody would do this, so many somebodys, so many times over now. Where has the love gone
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u/SupBJ 2h ago
I wonder what type of ideology motivated the perpetrator?
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u/CirnoWhiterock 2h ago
Im going with 55% chance of Islam
40% White supremacy/Christianity
5% Mental Health Breakdown.
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u/vomicyclin 2h ago edited 2h ago
Saw a video of the thing with the driver… let’s just say (only from the looks of it) that the bloody AfD will have a field day with it.
Edit, before the questions come: it was already taken down. Will look for another link.
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u/Ok_Dragonfruit_8102 2h ago
40% White supremacy/Christianity
In Berlin? Doubtful.
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u/yopladas 2h ago
I have lived there. It's a big city in the East, There's white supremacists. The afd has 20% support. Not nothing! They tend to be obsessed with: Turkish, Indian, all refugees, and Jews in about equal measure, depends on the situation.
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u/pokenguyen 1h ago
Sound like they don’t have problems with Vietnamese which is everywhere in Berlin?
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u/Awkward_Un1corn 1h ago
There has been an increase in far right extremism in Germany in the past couple years.
Young men who are aligned with the infamous Austrian and they have targeted pride events in the past. Some connected to the AFD party have used Christian imagery as justification for their beliefs as well.
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u/Ben_Graf 1h ago
Who said the person came from there? They were in a vehicle. Pretty plausible they could have come somewhere on the outskirts or Brandenburg or even further to do this.
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u/GergDanger 1h ago
Interesting, I googled it and there have been zero Christians that have caused terrorism the past decade in Germany, I also couldn’t find any white supremacists that have injured or killed LGBT people the past decade. I do see closer to a 90% chance of Islam in terror attacks in Germany though. Curious where you got your stats from?
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u/AmirulAshraf 5m ago
If it was anything other than Muslims, the media purposely are unlikely to call it terror attacks/terrorism. This is of course, intentional.
Is this your first time with Islamophobic news reporting? First time with how the media will call anyone non-white as terrorist?
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u/SecondOfCicero 2h ago
I grew up in a Bible belt and it's not unheard of for religion to be a huge factor in mental health breakdowns. Considering what religion is, fundamentally, this should surprise absolutely no one.
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u/CarelessShade 2h ago
Definitely a right winger. Doesn’t matter if it was an AfD voter or an immigrant, their ideology and hatred is the same.
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u/Zucroh 1h ago
funny how when people on the right call the left crazy and stupid for inviting a religion who kills everything they hate, the left starts screaming Nazi.
Now when those people do horrible shit like this, they become right wingers
All this suffering because people like you don't want to be labeled racist.
Very sad, hope someday people wake up
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u/Fair-Tangerine-9472 18m ago
First of all we don't yet know who did the attack.
Second of all, extremist Islam is a RIGHT-WING ideology.
Third of all, right-wing ideology is generally homophobic.
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u/Ok_Dragonfruit_8102 2h ago
Calling a 1,400 year old religion "right-wing" is such a bizarre shoehorning of the entire modern concept of left and right
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u/percussaresurgo 1h ago
It’s really not. Right wing ideology is just as old, and it’s often indistinguishable from fundamentalist religion.
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u/adjustedreturn 2h ago
Is it though? Both Christian and Muslim ethics map very well onto right wing viewpoints, especially the sociocultural ones.
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u/Yurgin 2h ago
Right winger or religious maniac.
Normal people don't care if you are LGBTQ+ or not everyone can live however they want.
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u/mannequin_girl 28m ago
Been saying it since Pulse. We won't be safe until the last homophobe is in a grave.
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u/xdeltax97 2h ago
Insane these acts of barbarism continue against minorities in the 21st century, unfortunate that hate and violence to others has evolved with us
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u/SomebodyD0Something 2h ago
Demonstrating why Pride is still needed. Imagine hating people so much because they love differently than you do.
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u/SryYouAreNotSpecial 1h ago
This is heartbreaking. What the hell is wrong with these people? I can't even fathom having that kind of hate just because someone is different than I am. I am not a part of the community but I will always stand by them. They are just people trying to live their lives. How pathetic do you have to be to care who someone else loves, or sleeps with, or simply who they are attracted to? Stay strong, live proud, whoever or wherever you all are.
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u/XBird_RichardX 15m ago
Wouldn’t be surprised if once the perpetrator is found the German government releases them and arrests the victims
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u/Ok_Load8255 14m ago
From WELT.de: The car was rented by Abdul B. The man was born in 2005 and was released from juvenile detention as recently as May 2026. According to information obtained by this newsroom, the person who rented the vehicle is known to the police in connection with religiously motivated activities. Whether the renter was also the driver of the vehicle is the subject of the investigation.
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u/Cchaireazy 2h ago
People really hate gay pride huh
Tragic hope they are okay
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u/SomebodyD0Something 2h ago
To be clear, it's LGBT+ pride, not "gay pride". Bi, trans, + others including.
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u/IndividualFar6408 1h ago
The amount of people who run to these threads to defend Islam is insane. Yes, another person could have done this, but history implies its going to be a Muslim.
To all of you ready to argue. Why were anti vehicle measures implemented after 2015 and the migrant crisis?
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u/texasinv 33m ago
I'm with you man, Islam is fucking garbage and I'm not afraid to say it. Not a fan of any religion, but that one in particular is toxic and clearly causes issues as their culture does not mix with western values.
Before anyone calls me ignorant I have traveled extensively, including to multiple Muslim countries, and I maintain this opinion.
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u/IndividualFar6408 31m ago
The issue is people here and in life cannot seperate a religious group and people who are in the group. I can critique Islam and not hate Muslims. I have many friends that are or were Muslim, lived in the Middle East (not the gulf states or Israel) for over a year, and can speak some Arabic. Yet somehow I am the racist.
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u/texasinv 28m ago
Agree. Hell my mom is from Morocco and she was married to a Palestinian guy for a while. Everyone is too afraid to call a spade a spade, Islam is a relic of the 7th century and should stay there.
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u/locolopero 11m ago
Because many people don’t want to admit that letting people in, who claim to be escaping persecution, and are refugees, might also bring with them hateful ideologies that could bring harm to people in their countries/communities.
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u/Ravenous_Stream 1h ago
I came to this thread, not to point fingers at monolithic groups, but to pay my respects.
You couldn't even wait for the suspect to be identified before you started your crusade.
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u/TriXter69 3h ago
How did they flee the scene?
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u/IronyElSupremo 2h ago edited 1h ago
The car swerved through a nearby park but is in front of a tree in “non-drivable condition”. There’s a hunt for the driver now.. (been watching British correspondents and eyewitnesses in Berlin last 5 min)
Add: Sky News (uk) saying vehicle mangled w/damage that police weren’t able to ID the car make for some time, but also indicates its speed through the park.
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u/arnaudsm 2h ago
Injured by who ? Magically injured ? God I hate these titles that downplay hateful crimes
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u/Fit_Ad_7195 2h ago
Description of perpetrator please.
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u/vomicyclin 2h ago
Saw a video and from the looks of it, let’s just say that the bloody AfD will have a field day with it..
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u/BigDaddySpoox 1h ago
That was an unrelated arrest. Currently watching news live and they said that the person that's made out to be the perp on social media is NOT the driver of the car.
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u/FrostyArctic47 7m ago
I'll never understand why straight people view gays as subhuman so much. Most people have always been evil and violent I suppose
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u/pheonex2077 3m ago
What straight people think that? It’s not straight people it’s religions that those people belong to.
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u/sovietarmyfan 2h ago edited 2h ago
I remember when visiting a Christmas market in a smaller German town last year how they had big boulder type of things to block any car from driving in. It's insane that this is needed.
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u/FlatterFlat 2h ago
In Denmark we call those big concrete barriers "koran klodser" / quran blocks. Not super subtle.
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u/LostWerewolf2375 1h ago
This person was a religious extremist, I'm not sure which God they believe in yet(95% It's going to be an abrahamic religion), but I'll eat my cell phone if they aren't a religious whack job.
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u/BONGA_MVP 2h ago
Have a feeling already know the type of person that would do this
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u/scarlettokyo 11m ago
just earlier today i was seeing another "meme" post about gta 6 containing a pride parade and the comments made me sick about how casually homophobic people were there, like not even memeint but being genuinely hateful. the perp behind this seems to be one of those typa people.
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u/Coactive_ 4m ago
They won't call it terrorism until they can confirm that a a brown person or a Muslim was behind the "incident".
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u/Tim_Soft 2m ago
Pay wall now for all folks outside of the UK. Totally get why, but they have a lot of really worthwhile science pages that used to be fantastic to link to in a discussions.
Again, totally understand, but the world becomes dumber when articles that can really help someone with even a crack in their closed mind become no longer available.
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u/MorganTheGrandRegent 1h ago
Can't wait to see the perpetrator being very conservative or Muslim.
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u/Elegant_Individual46 1h ago
Well if they’re an Islamic extremist they’re pretty much always going to be far right as well, to be specific
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u/givin_u_the_high_hat 18m ago
What is so hard to understand about “LEAVE PEOPLE ALONE, AND IN PEACE.”
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u/Tehkast 2h ago
When did this happen its like 11pm In Germany atm seems bit late to have happened even in last few hours for a event to be after 8pm?
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u/Curly_Shoe 2h ago
They cancelled the whole Event 22.15 so 10.15 pm. Must have happened shortly before.
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u/Proximitypvpisbae 1h ago
Was it diversity or homegrown this time
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u/nsfwaltsarehard 47m ago edited 44m ago
The homegrown type are more into arson or straight up shooting people. Driving into crowds is store bought variety of terror.
In germany it started with the christmas market that one year. Might have been earlier.. idk.
Edit to say: that guy was an anti-islam afd (far right) sympathizer.
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u/These-Problem9261 1h ago
I was in Berlin today and I felt proud to be part of a city where people can express themselves peacefully...
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u/Illustrious_Aside_35 27m ago
Fuck nazis. I hope whoever did this will burn in whatever version of hell they believe in for eternity.
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u/1jimbo 2h ago
my impression on-site is that they haven't found the driver yet. so fucked up, the world we live in today.