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Suspect In Deadly Berlin Pride Attack Is Killed After Confrontation With Police, Officials Say (www.huffpost.com)

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The suspect in the deadly Berlin Pride attack that left one person dead and 29 injured was shot and killed by police during a confrontation on Sunday in a suburb of the city, authorities said.

Abdul Ballout, a German citizen with Lebanese roots, was killed following a search that lasted nearly 24 hours after the attack in downtown Berlin. Prosecutors said he had previously sought to join the militant Islamic State group.

Ballout was suspected of driving a van into a crowd near Berlin’s Pride festival Saturday night before apparently stabbing others with a machete in what authorities believe was an Islamic extremist terror attack.

Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt said the attack occurred a few hundred meters (yards) from a party near the Brandenburg Gate that was supposed to close out the city’s Pride festival.

Ballout was tracked down around 6 p.m. Sunday at a garden in Spandau, a Berlin suburb, the city’s police department wrote on X. They said he apparently ran toward officers with a sharp instrument, and police fired at least one shot. He died at the scene.

Ballout was born in Germany, the minister said. His mother was naturalized in 2002, three years before he was born.

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[–] gusgalarnyk@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

Literally demonstrating the racism of most countries by making assumptions about their background and at the same time reinforcing the toxic psychology that it's never systemic failures but moral and character failures of certain individuals.

"It's the parents fault..." excuses the systemic issues every place in the world faces and ensure no progress can ever be made on fixing those problems because you can't drain a boat of water one bucket at a time if it's full of holes. You must address the systemic problems to lessen the individual failures within that system.

"... probably didn't bother to integrate and learn the language..." Is a plainly racist assumption. As a white, straight, male American living in Germany I have faced nearly zero hardships despite speaking little German. Integration is not hard, even if you don't speak the language and integration is not one person's choice. If people were less patient with me, racist to me, even violent towards me I couldn't integrate if I wanted to.

You ignore the problems that plague your society because you think it is personal failings, and in doing so make your society worse while blaming the impoverished and the downtrodden.