I woke up late and joined hundreds of thousands of people marching through the city for Christopher Street Day, our biggest Pride event. The man killed one woman, a 65-year-old Polish citizen, who was visiting Berlin with her daughter, and wounded 29 more, some severely. Ballout had attempted to join the Islamic State, the jihadist terror group, in Syria, and authorities ruled it a terrorist attack . It's no secret that Germany has been severely cracking down on pro-Palestine protests; indeed, nine people at the Internationalist Queer Pride, held in another part of the city, were arrested, largely for shouting banned pro-Palestine slogans, per Tagesspiegel . The Amadeu Antonio Stiftung counted disruptions or attacks at 111 of 245 German Pride events in 2025, a record, largely by far-right agitators.