On Saturday, a motorist drove into crowds at Berlin's LGBTQ Pride march, an attack attributed to Abdul B., a 21-year-old Islamist who was killed by police while fleeing. A video found on his phone showed him claiming the attack and pledging allegiance to the Islamic State. The assault has produced sharp reactions in Sweden and at the European Parliament, and has renewed attention in Germany to deradicalisation efforts.

At a party leaders' debate organised by RFSL in Sweden, Kristdemokraterna leader Ebba Busch described Islamist extremism as the greatest security threat to LGBTQ people in Sweden and Europe, and accused the Left Party of having had representatives who praised Hamas and wanted sharia law in Sweden. Nooshi Dadgostar, the Left Party leader, responded: "It is not possible to have a serious discussion with Ebba Busch if this is the level." She recalled that the Christian Democrats in 1971 had preached that homosexuality was a disease and went against God's will.

At the European Parliament, Susanna Ceccardi of Italy's Lega has accused institutions of ignoring homotransphobia emanating from radical Islamist communities. According to Ceccardi, raising the issue in the civil liberties committee had produced "embarrassed silence"; colleagues answered that the real problem for rights was the right, and "a few days later, unfortunately, there was the attack on the Berlin Pride".

In Germany, Thomas Mücke, executive director of the Violence Prevention Network, said Abdul B. attended two preliminary talks in June and July, but staff did not think he genuinely wanted to leave the Islamist scene and he would probably not have been accepted into the programme. Social workers in North Rhine-Westphalia's Islamism disengagement programme said their clients have become considerably younger and radicalisation frequently occurs through digital media; social networks act as accelerators. One client was accompanied for seven years, they said.

The Federal Criminal Police Office has cautioned that its risk-assessment tool RADAR-iTE, developed with the University of Konstanz, can only record which risk and protective factors are present and enable case prioritisation; it cannot establish their relevance in a single case or how they are linked. Writing in Tages-Anzeiger, the Swiss author Philipp Tingler criticised the handling of the attack, noting that gay associations were reluctant to call the perpetrator an Islamist or condemn his homophobic ideology; in an interview with SRF, the co-president of Pink Cross did not use the term. Ceccardi said she would table a parliamentary question to the European Commission urging action against homotransphobia linked to Islamic extremism.