BERLIN, Germany (AP) — German investigators were still searching Sunday for a man suspected of driving a van into a crowd the night before near Berlin’s Pride festival, killing one person and injuring several people before apparently stabbing others with a machete in what authorities believe was an Islamic extremist terror attack.

Authorities issued a wanted notice and warned people against approaching Abdul Ballout, 21, a German citizen with Lebanese roots, saying that he may be armed and dangerous.

“Everything we see here points to us dealing with an Islamic terror attack,” Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt said.

Dobrindt put the total number of wounded at 29. The attack occurred a few hundred yards from a party near the Brandenburg Gate that was supposed to close out the city’s Pride festival.

Dobrindt said the suspect had come to authorities’ attention in the past because of numerous previous crimes, of which he did not give details, and also because of “radicalization and belonging to the Islamist scene” in the German capital.

He said Ballout was born in Germany, and that his mother was naturalized in 2002 — three years before he was born.

JUST IN – Berlin police release an image of the suspect, Abdul B, wanted in connection with the car ramming incident at Berlin's pride festival, adding not to approach him as "he may be armed and dangerous." pic.twitter.com/LaIgp5dm7i — Disclose.tv (@disclosetv) July 26, 2026

JUST IN – Berlin police release an image of the suspect, Abdul B, wanted in connection with the car ramming incident at Berlin's pride festival, adding not to approach him as "he may be armed and dangerous." pic.twitter.com/LaIgp5dm7i

— Disclose.tv (@disclosetv) July 26, 2026

Dobrindt said the suspect had been convicted in Berlin in the past, though he did not specify for what. He said that he had been given a suspended sentence of 1 year and 10........

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