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Berlin Pride Vehicle and Machete Attack Kills One, Injures 29, Suspect Shot Dead

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•Abdul Ballout, a 21-year-old German citizen with documented ties to ISIS, killed one person and injured 29 near Berlin's Pride parade using a vehicle and machete before being shot dead by police.
•Ballout had been imprisoned for preparing a serious act of violence against the state but was released from detention in May, two months before the attack.
•German authorities face sharp criticism for not preventing the attack despite the suspect's known extremist history.
•Berlin's LGBTQ+ community reported feeling increasingly unsafe even before the attack, citing threats from both Islamist and far-right sources.
•Alternative für Deutschland seized on the incident to call for stricter extremism laws, accusing the government of inaction on Islamist radicalism.

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