Berlin Attack Suspect Was Known to Authorities for Radicalisation and Extensive Criminal Record

Germany's interior minister named Abdul Ballout, 21, as the suspect in the July 25 Berlin Tiergarten attack that killed one and injured 29. Dobrindt said Ballout had drawn attention through "a high volume of criminal offences, radicalisation and affiliation with the Islamist scene." That prior record now raises urgent questions about intelligence and surveillance failures.