Participants at the start of the Hamburg Pride 2026 parade (Georg Wendt/dpa via AP)Hamburg’s Pride parade, one of Germany’s biggest, made its way through the port city with increased security on Saturday, a week after a fatal extremist attack near its counterpart in Berlin. Police and organisers said that about 300,000 people attended, compared with around 260,000 last year, German news agency dpa reported. Some 300,000 people attended the Hamburg Pride event (Georg Wendt/dpa via AP) (Georg Wendt/Georg Wendt/DPA via AP)The Hamburg event’s motto this time is “Queer in solidarity. A late addition to the trucks taking part was one representing the Berlin Pride event — or Christopher Street Day, CSD for short, as the parades are known in Germany. Late on July 25, a driver ploughed a van into people a few hundred metres from the closing party of the Berlin Pride event before cutting others with what appears to have been a machete.