On a July evening in Berlin, a car drove deliberately into a crowd celebrating Christopher Street Day near the Brandenburg Gate, killing one person and wounding sixteen others. The attack cut short one of Europe's largest Pride gatherings and drew swift condemnation from Chancellor Merz and city officials. It arrives as the latest in a series of vehicle and knife attacks at German public spaces, renewing a painful national reckoning with how to preserve open, democratic life while protecting those who gather to celebrate it.
Car attack at Berlin Pride kills 1, wounds 16; Merz vows justice
One person killed and 16 others wounded in the vehicle attack near Berlin's Gay Pride celebration.