One after another, mainstream German politicians have lined up to claim that the attack on Berlin Pride last weekend was an attack on “all of us”, “our values” and “our society”. This atrocity in which a van was rammed into the crowd was, first and foremost, an attack on queer people. View image in fullscreen Friedrich Merz speaking at a memorial service for the victims of the Berlin Pride attack, St-Marien-Kirche, Berlin, 26 July 2026. Amjahid’s plea that authorities reexamine the concept of security as they investigate the Pride attack, rather than hand police more access to citizens’ personal data, resonates with me. The far-right AfD is already exploiting this Pride attack to campaign for September elections in three federal states, accusing the government of “catastrophic migration politics”.