Berlin Pride parade called off after car hits crowds, police say


Emergency responders work on the site, after the annual Christopher Street Day (CSD) LGBT Pride demonstration was called off, after a car crashed into the crowd at Tiergarten park, leaving several people injured, in Berlin, Germany, July 25, 2026. REUTERS/Christian Mang

BERLIN, July ⁠25 (Reuters) - A car drove into ⁠a crowd near Berlin's ‌Pride celebrations on Saturday evening, injuring several people, Berlin police said.

Police said on ​the social media ⁠platform X they ⁠were responding with emergency services to ⁠an ‌incident in the city's central Tiergarten park ⁠close to the Brandenburg Gate, where ​a ‌vehicle had struck multiple people.

"We ⁠are searching ​intensively for suspects," police said.

Hundreds of thousands of people ⁠had gathered peacefully in the ​German capital for the annual Christopher Street Day celebrations, one ⁠of Europe's largest Pride events, before the incident ended the festivities.

Emergency services were treating the ​injured at the ⁠scene, police said. The number and ​severity of injuries ‌were not immediately ​clear.

(Reporting by Kirsti Knolle in BerlinEditing by Rod Nickel)

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