Overview
- Hundreds of thousands attended the two-day Christopher Street Day in Berlin under the slogan “Haltung ist hot,” and organizers cut the program short after a vehicle struck people in the Tiergarten late Saturday evening.
- Berlin police said one person died and about 14–15 others were injured, some seriously, and they set up a large cordoned crime scene with witness-gathering points while searching for suspected perpetrators.
- Authorities deployed roughly 2,200 officers to the CSD earlier in the day and had already screened small groups suspected of right-wing affiliation at Potsdamer Platz and at the Friday concert.
- Organizers ordered an orderly evacuation of the Brandenburger Tor area and directed participants to leave toward Hauptbahnhof as emergency services treated the wounded and helicopters and forensic teams worked in the park.
- The attack raises fresh alarm about safety for queer communities that this year framed CSD as a protest against rising hate crimes, and investigators warn that motive, number of assailants and exact casualty figures remain under active inquiry.