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该组织的一位负责人周一对哥伦比亚广播公司新闻表示，柏林LGBTQ+骄傲日游行袭击嫌疑人此前已被该项目工作人员发现预警信号，而这名官员证实其与ISIS有关联的嫌疑人原本即将被取消参与去激进化项目的资格。
官员们称，21岁的黎巴嫩裔德国公民阿卜杜勒·巴卢特于周六晚间驾车冲撞欧洲最大规模骄傲节活动的庆祝人群，随后疑似用砍刀砍伤他人，造成一名女子死亡，至少29人受伤。
巴卢特周日在柏林郊区与警方对峙时被击毙，结束了为期24小时的追捕行动。
他近期被送入去激进化项目接受筛查，但该组织表示，原本计划告知当局，巴卢特的合作态度看起来“十分虚假”。
“当局为何不更早启动相关程序？他早就被认定为激进分子了，”该组织通讯主任科妮莉亚·洛特哈默在接受哥伦比亚广播公司新闻采访时说道。
德国总理弗里德里希·梅尔茨周一对记者表示，他希望查明此次袭击本可如何避免。
“我们必须竭尽所能，保护德国民众免受这类罪犯、这类无论出于何种原因都无法被羁押的危险人物的伤害，”他说道。
警方称，巴卢特租下了此次袭击所用的车辆。
波兰外交部周一表示，此次袭击中遇难的女子为波兰公民。
嫌疑人与伊斯兰极端主义的关联
当局表示，巴卢特出生于德国，其母亲于2002年入籍德国，也就是他出生的三年前。他们还称，巴卢ter此前曾因多起事件被警方记录在案，包括2019年他在柏林一所高中的校园内袭击一名受害者并被判有罪。两年后的2022年，巴卢特还在少年法庭因袭击和以抢劫为目的的敲诈勒索罪被定罪。
然而，极端主义的首个迹象出现在2024年，柏林检察官向哥伦比亚广播公司新闻提供的信息显示，巴卢特在其Instagram主页上分享了两条ISIS宣传帖。
次年，他前往黎巴嫩“意图从那里前往叙利亚加入ISIS”，检察官办公室表示。但巴卢特在黎巴嫩被捕入狱。他于2025年11月服完刑后返回德国，并在柏林机场被捕。
检察官称，今年5月，柏林一家少年法庭以“准备实施严重颠覆暴力行为”、在Instagram发布ISIS宣传内容及其他罪名判处巴卢特有罪，刑期为1年10个月。
尽管提起上诉，巴卢特仍获得了缓刑，部分原因是考虑到他在黎巴嫩的服刑时间和审前羁押时长，另一部分原因是他承认了罪行并与ISIS划清界限，检察官表示。
另外，据柏林检察官向哥伦比亚广播公司新闻提供的信息，7月3日，也就是周六袭击发生的三周多前，警方以初步怀疑违反德国《武器法》为由搜查了巴卢特在柏林舍讷贝格的住所。但仅在现场发现一把玩具枪，搜查结束后案件随即被撤销。
情报消息人士向哥伦比亚广播公司新闻透露，初步信息显示，这名涉嫌袭击者与美国没有任何关联。
去激进化项目发现预警信号
获释后，法庭下令巴卢特参与针对高风险罪犯的去激进化项目。他接受了总部位于柏林的暴力预防网络组织的两次评估，该组织为面临右翼极端主义和伊斯兰主义风险的人群提供帮助。原定于周一进行第三次也是最后一次评估。
该组织通讯主任科内利萨·洛特哈默周一对哥伦比亚广播公司新闻表示，工作人员“强烈认为”巴卢特不适合该项目，因为“他长期以来极端化程度很深”。
她说，工作人员认定巴卢特在整个筛查过程中存在“虚假合作”。
“我们的同事能看出来，他对真正的去激进化过程并不感兴趣，”洛特哈默说道。
“他给出了他们想听的答案。但当然，我们的同事也注意到了这一点，”她说道。
洛特哈默表示，巴卢特没有表现出即将发动袭击的迹象，并补充说，如果工作人员有任何危险迹象，他们早就会联系警方了。
柏林深陷暴力事件余波
袭击发生在距离勃兰登堡门数百码的地方，当时活动本应是该市骄傲节的闭幕庆典。
事发后数小时，数百名悼念者聚集在这座标志性大门前的临时悼念点。他们互相拥抱，摆放鲜花、蜡烛、彩虹旗和自制标语牌。
“这太不正常了；那些只是普通人，他们不应因为自己的爱情选择而被评判或杀害，”一名在悼念点的女子周一对哥伦比亚广播公司新闻说道。
“明明知道有人会构成危险却无动于衷，这太不正常了……当然，我很愤怒，”另一名悼念者补充道。
参加了此次活动的朱利安·米廷周日告诉美联社，这对社区来说是“黑暗的一天”。
驾车冲撞袭击事件频发
此次袭击是一系列袭击中的最新一起，令德国民众对公共安全深感担忧。
2024年12月，一辆汽车冲撞马格德堡圣诞市场，造成6人死亡、数百人受伤。两个月后，一辆汽车冲撞慕尼黑的工会示威人群，造成一名女子及其2岁女儿死亡。2025年3月，又有两人在曼海姆的一起汽车冲撞人群事件中丧生。
这些袭击的涉嫌动机各不相同，但它们共同将移民、安全和极端主义问题推到了德国政治的核心位置。相关辩论也助长了极右翼选择党（AfD）的支持率上升，并给梅尔茨和德国主流政党带来压力，他们需要说服选民自己能够保障国家的安全。
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Berlin Pride attack suspect raised red flags, group says, amid questions about prior release from prison despite ISIS ties
2026-07-27T11:40:00-0400 / CBS News
By Lucia I Suarez Sang Associate Managing Editor
Lucia Suarez Sang is an associate managing editor at CBSNews.com. Previously, Lucia was the director of digital content at FOX61 News in Connecticut and has previously written for outlets including FoxNews.com, Fox News Latino and the Rutland Herald.
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The suspect in the Berlin LGBTQ+ Pride parade attack, who officials said was known to have ties to ISIS, was about to be disqualified from a deradicalization program after staff saw red flags, one of the program’s leaders told CBS News on Monday.
Officials said Abdul Ballout, a 21-year-old German-born citizen with Lebanese roots, plowed a vehicle into celebrants at one of Europe’s largest Pride events on Saturday night before apparently cutting others with a machete. One woman was killed, and at least 29 others were injured in the attack.
Ballout was shot and killed in a Berlin suburb on Sunday in a confrontation with police, ending a 24-hour manhunt.
He had recently been sent to a deradicalization program for screening, but the group said it was planning to tell authorities that his cooperation appeared “fake.”
“Why didn’t authorities start this process very much earlier? He was known for being a radical for a long time,” Cornelia Lotthammer, the organization’s communications director, said in an interview with CBS News.
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz on Monday told reporters he wanted to know how the attack could have been prevented.
“We must do everything to protect people in Germany as best possible from such criminals, from dangerous people who for whatever reason can’t be taken into custody,” he said.
Police said they believe Ballout rented the vehicle used in the attack.
The woman who died in the attack was a Polish national, the foreign ministry in Warsaw said Monday.
A view of the site where the suspected attacker on the Cristhoper Street Parade was fatally shot during a special operation in the Spandau district, in Berlin, Germany, on July 26, 2026. Volodymyr Sindieiev/Anadolu via Getty Images
Suspect’s ties to Islamist extremism
Authorities said Ballout was born in Germany and that his mother was naturalized in 2002, three years before he was born. They also said Ballout was known to police after multiple incidents, including back in 2019 when he was found guilty of assaulting a victim in the schoolyard of a Berlin high school. Two years later, in 2022, Ballout was also convicted in juvenile court for assault and extortion with the intent to rob.
However, the first signs of extremism were in 2024 when Ballout shared two posts of ISIS propaganda on his Instagram page, according to information provided to CBS News by Berlin prosecutors.
The following year, he traveled to Lebanon “with the intention of proceeding from there to Syria to join ISIS,” the prosecutors’ office said. However, Ballout was arrested and jailed in Lebanon. He returned to Germany in November 2025 after completing his sentence and was arrested at the Berlin airport.
A public information screen displays a Berlin police appeal for information about Abdul Ballout, the suspected attacker in the car attack near the CSD Pride parade. Vasily Krestyaninov/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images
In May, a juvenile court in Berlin convicted Ballout for “preparing a serious act of subversive violence,” publishing ISIS propaganda on Instagram and other charges, prosecutors said. He was sentenced to a year and 10 months in jail.
Despite appeals, Ballout was given a suspended sentence, partially in recognition of the time he had spent in jail in Lebanon and pre-trial detention, and partially because he admitted to the crimes and distanced himself from ISIS, prosecutors said.
Separately, on July 3, just over three weeks before Saturday’s attack, police searched Ballout’s home in Berlin-Schöneberg, prompted by an initial suspicion of a violation of Germany’s Weapons Act, according to information provided to CBS News by Berlin prosecutors. They left after only a toy gun was found during the search and the case was subsequently dismissed.
Intelligence sources told CBS News preliminary information does not suggest any nexus between the alleged attacker and the United States.
Deradicalization program saw red flags
After his release, the court ordered Ballout to attend a deradicalization program for high-risk offenders. He was evaluated twice by the Berlin-based Violence Prevention Network, which works with people at risk from right-wing extremism and Islamism. A third and final evaluation was scheduled for Monday.
Cornelisa Lotthammer, the organization’s communications director, told CBS News on Monday that the staff had a “strong impression” that Ballout was not apt for their program because “he was very radicalized and for a long time.”
She said staff determined that there was “fake cooperation” from Ballout throughout the screenings.
“Our colleagues could tell that he wasn’t very interested in a real deradicalization process,” Lotthammer said.
“He gave the answers they wanted to hear. But of course, our colleagues noticed this,” she said.
Ballout did not show any signs he was planning an imminent attack, Lotthammer said, adding that if staff had any hint of danger, they would have called the police.
Berlin reels from the violence
The attack occurred a few hundred yards from the Brandenburg Gate during a celebration that was supposed to close out the city’s Pride festival.
In the hours after, hundreds of mourners gathered at a makeshift memorial at the iconic gate. They hugged each other and laid down flowers, candles, rainbow flags and homemade signs.
Tributes, like flowers, condolence placards, candles and rainbow flags, have been arranged on the ground on Pariser Platz in front of the landmark Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, on July 27, 2026. John MACDOUGALL /AFP via Getty Images
“This is not normal; those are just people; they should not be judged or killed for their choice of love,” one woman at the memorial told CBS News on Monday.
“It’s not normal that someone we know can be dangerous; we don’t do anything about it… of course, I’m mad,” another mourner added.
Julian Miething, who had attended the event, told the AP on Sunday that it was a “dark day for the community.”
Rise in ramming attacks
The attack is the latest in a series that have left the country grappling with concerns about public safety.
Six people were killed and hundreds injured when a car plowed into a Christmas market in Magdeburg in December 2024. Two months later, a car drove into trade union demonstrators in Munich, killing a woman and her 2-year-old daughter. Two more people were killed in March 2025 when a car rammed into a crowd in Mannheim.
The attacks have different alleged motives, but together have kept immigration, security and extremism at the center of German politics. The debates have also fueled support for the far-right Alternative for Germany party, or AfD, and put pressure on Merz and Germany’s mainstream political parties as they try to convince voters they can keep the country safe.
Pat Milton, Anna Noryskiewicz and Imtiaz Tyab contributed to this report.