The police have shot dead the alleged perpetrator of the multiple car accident in Berlin near Spandau, during the LGTBI Pride celebrations, which left one dead and 29 injured. According to Berlin Police spokesman Florian Nath, the fugitive is Abdul Ballout, 21 years old and of German nationality.
The young man has been neutralized in a garden plot in that town on the outskirts of the German capital. Furthermore, at the time of being discovered, he approached the agents with a knife. “Around 6 p.m., the suspect from yesterday’s attack in Tiergarten (park) was located in an area of garden plots in Spandau. The suspect ran with a knife toward our troops,” who opened fire, Nath explained.
In May he was sentenced to one year and ten months in prison.
Despite resuscitation attempts, the injuries were “so serious” that he ended up dying. For her part, the head of the Interior, Iris Spranger, has expressed gratitude to the security forces for locating the attacker “so quickly.” “It is an extraordinary achievement,” he said.
Ballout was on the run after running over a crowd. He had a record of injuries and robbery and in May he had been sentenced to one year and ten months in prison for having tried to join the Islamic State jihadist group. However, he had been released on conditional release while the court resolved the Prosecutor’s appeal, which requested a longer sentence.
It is not ruled out that he had accomplices
It is not ruled out that he had an accomplice at the time of the attack, which is why several people around him have been arrested for interrogation.
At the moment, the city’s flags are at half-mast and in the coming days a religious event will be held in the church of Santa María, as reported by the mayor, Kai Wegner. The councilor has not hesitated to describe the event as “Islamist attack against our way of living together, our liberal democracy, our open character and our freedom.”
