AfD Seeks to Capitalize on Berlin Pride Attack as Germany Grapples with Violence

Multiple people were killed in a vehicle attack at Berlin Pride; survivors and the LGBTQ+ community face trauma and fear of political weaponization.

In the wake of a deadly vehicle attack at Berlin Pride—carried out by a man who pledged allegiance to ISIS before his death—Germany finds itself navigating not only grief but the calculated opportunism that so often follows mass tragedy. The far-right AfD, a party that has long worked to diminish LGBTQ+ visibility and rights, moved swiftly to position itself as a defender of the very community it has spent years marginalizing. This is a familiar human pattern: those who would restrict a people's freedoms claiming, in moments of crisis, to be their protectors. The question Germany must now answ

AfD Seeks to Capitalize on Berlin Pride Attack as Germany Grapples with Violence

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