Berlin Calls Pride Attack a 'Terrorist Attack'
By Jim Tankersley Reporting from Berlin New York Times An overnight manhunt for the attacker who killed a woman and injured 29 others at a Berlin gay Pride celebration stretched into midday Sunday with no resolution in sight, as the authorities asked the public to help find a young man they said had ties to Islamist extremist groups. Kai Wegner, the mayor of Berlin, told reporters at a news conference near the site of the attack on Sunday afternoon that “we are presumably looking at an Islamist terror attack directed at our way of life, our liberal democracy, our openness and our freedom.” Alexander Dobrindt, the federal interior minister, echoed that assessment, saying the attack was most likely Islamist terrorism. He said at the news conference that the suspect was born in Germany and is a German citizen — with family roots in Lebanon — who had attacked people just outside the celebration with a rented van and a bladed weapon. He said the suspect had a histo...
