The suspect in the deadly Berlin Pride attack that left one person dead and 29 injured was shot and killed by police during a confrontation on Sunday in a suburb of the city, authorities said.

Abdul Ballout, a German citizen with Lebanese roots, was killed following a search that lasted nearly 24 hours after the attack in downtown Berlin. Prosecutors said he had previously sought to join the militant Islamic State group.

Ballout was suspected of driving a van into a crowd near Berlin’s Pride festival Saturday night before apparently stabbing others with a machete in what authorities believe was an Islamic extremist terror attack.

Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt said the attack occurred a few hundred meters (yards) from a party near the Brandenburg Gate that was supposed to close out the city’s Pride festival.

Ballout was tracked down around 6 p.m. Sunday at a garden in Spandau, a Berlin suburb, the city’s police department wrote on X. They said he apparently ran toward officers with a sharp instrument, and police fired at least one shot. He died at the scene.

Ballout was born in Germany, the minister said. His mother was naturalized in 2002, three years before he was born.

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    Naturalized is the verb form. It means “to become a citizen”. It’s not bigoted, it’s describing a status equivalent to someone born in the country. You become “native” or “natural” to the country.

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      I disagree. You become a citizen, you acquire citizenship. The right to participate in civil society.

      A natural doesn’t acquire citizenship, it’s innate. A natural is a citizen, but a citizen doesn’t need to be a natural.

      You cannot change your nature, your past, your beginning to somewhere else.

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        11 hours ago

        I mean you can disagree all you want, but that’s the literal definition of the term. It’s officially called “naturalization”, and I gave you the reasons why they called it that.

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          Oficial also doesn’t mean real. I’m so right it’s painfull

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            The people you’re trying to argue with died hundreds of years ago buddy. Take it up with them.

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              at least I’m not victimizing the killer. enjoy hell