Berlin police and prosecutors still have a wanted appeal running over the Christopher Street Day attack, hours after German media reported the suspect had been killed

The wanted appeal is still up.

Polizei Berlin and the Generalstaatsanwaltschaft Berlin published it jointly on Sunday, numbered 0905, asking for help locating a 21-year-old man identified under German naming convention as Abdul B. The release says he is alleged to have injured several people with a moving vehicle at around 22:00 on Saturday on the Ahornsteig, inside the Grosser Tiergarten. One or more people are then alleged to have left the vehicle. It says several people are alleged to have been injured by stabbing implements. The description runs to slim build, around 1.90 metres, black hair, black hoodie and white trousers, and the appeal tells the public not to approach him because he may be armed and dangerous.

Hours after that went up, German media reported the man was dead. Euronews, citing the public broadcaster rbb, reported on Sunday evening that he had been located at a garden allotment in Berlin, and, citing the tabloid BILD, that officers were deployed to the Spandau district where witnesses reported hearing gunshots. Berlin police have published nothing to that effect. Their newest release remains the appeal.

Federal Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt gave the casualty figures in a statement at the scene at midday on Sunday, according to the Euronews report. One woman was killed and 29 people were injured, some seriously and a number of them critically. He said the attack has been classified as an Islamist terrorist attack, and that the suspected attacker used the van as a weapon and then went after people with a machete. The police document is narrower than that. It records stabbing implements, and it attributes no motive to anyone.

Governing Mayor Kai Wegner said the attack happened outside the official Christopher Street Day route, which was not itself affected, though a large number of people were still gathered a few hundred metres away, either leaving the event or spending time nearby. A spokesperson for the Charité hospital told the German Press Agency that four patients have been discharged and four remain in intensive care, none of them, at this point in time, in a life-threatening condition.

Chancellor Friedrich Merz went to a service for the victims and their relatives at St Mary's Church on Alexanderplatz on Sunday afternoon, alongside Education Minister Karin Prien and Justice Minister Stefanie Hubig. Before it he said that "we will defend freedom" and that the government would not allow "this poison of terrorism and this poison directed against our freedom to spread further in our society". He said perpetrators of such crimes have "no place at the heart of our society". He also said the federal government would examine the consequences of the attack and take appropriate decisions, acting with calm deliberation and with determination. Nothing has been announced.

One detail moved during the day. The joint police and prosecutor release puts the incident on the Ahornsteig in the Grosser Tiergarten, which is inside the park rather than at its edge, while an earlier Euronews account placed the car near Potsdamer Platz. This brief follows the document.

Everything attributed above to Dobrindt, Wegner, the Charité and Merz comes from the Euronews report by Donogh McCabe, published on Sunday evening and credited inline. German federal government and interior ministry press pages redirected away from this desk on Sunday and could not be read. The police and prosecutor release was opened and read in the original German, and the allegations in it are stated as allegations because that is how the document states them.