In Germany, police have released a second suspect in a hit-and-run in Berlin.

German police have released a second suspect in a hit-and-run at the Christopher Street Day festival in Berlin. This was reported by Reuters on July 27.

"The authorities released the man because the initial suspicions that he was a passenger in the car during the attack were not confirmed," the article says.

The prosecutor's office told the agency that law enforcement officers continue to conduct a large-scale investigation.

What happened in Magdeburg: a car drove into the crowd at the Christmas fair

There are dead and wounded

On July 25, a car drove into a crowd in the Tiergarten central park, near the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, injuring several people. The next day, the police detained the alleged passenger of the car. The number of injured when a car hit the crowd reached 29, one person was killed. Law enforcement officers classified the incident as an Islamist terrorist attack.

The German newspaper Welt reported on July 26 that a suspect in a hit-and-run in Berlin was released from a juvenile correctional facility only in May 2026. German Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt said that the driver who hit the crowd also attacked passers-by with a machete. He added that the main suspect is a German citizen with Lebanese roots born in 2005.

RBB later reported that the suspect in the terrorist attack in the center of Berlin, according to preliminary data, was eliminated during a police operation in the Spandau area. The TV channel did not provide other details of the operation.