The horrific attack on a gay pride parade in Berlin (which John noted here) includes all the usual cliches. From Sky News UK,
Police ‘do not rule out more attacks’ as manhunt for ‘armed and dangerous’ Berlin terror suspect continues.
The suspect Abdul Ballout, homegrown,
Abdul was released from juvenile detention two months ago, according to the Reuters news agency, which cites security sources.
The interior minister, Alexander Dobrindt, said [he] was initially sentenced to one year and 10 months in prison, which was switched to a non-custodial sentence due to a legal complaint.
Known to police,
Earlier, the German interior minister, Alexander Dobrindt, revealed that B has a Lebanese background.
He is a German citizen, born in 2005 in Germany. His mother became a German citizen in 2002.
[He] had “drawn attention to himself through a high volume of criminal offences, radicalisation and affiliation with the Islamist scene”, Dobrindt said.
Always the machete,
Attacker ‘probably’ used machete: The suspect used a vehicle to drive into a crowd, then used a “stabbing weapon, a beating weapon, probably a machete” to attack passers-by, causing serious injuries, the minister added.
Rinse and repeat.
