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Shortly before three German state
elections, a terrorist attack on Berlin’s Christopher

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Street Day (CSD) shook the entire country.

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On July 25, around 10:00 p.m., a small van plowed into a
crowd of people; the perpetrator initially fled the scene.

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A day later, on July 26 at around 6 p.m., the
suspected perpetrator was shot and killed by

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police at an allotment garden complex in Berlin.

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Anyone who has been following the terrorist
attacks of recent years will notice that they

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follow a recurring pattern in certain respects.

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Example 1: The perpetrator's identity
is established surprisingly quickly.

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Passports or cell phones are found either directly at
the crime scene or in the vehicle used in the crime.

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During the 2016 terrorist attack at the Berlin Christmas
market, Anis Amri’s phone was stuck in the radiator grille.

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Abdul Ballout, the perpetrator of the recent attack in
Berlin, apparently also left his cell phone in the car.

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It has now come to light that he is said to have
left a second cell phone in the car, on which a video

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claiming responsibility is said to have been found.

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Perpetrators who leave identification documents or cell phones
at the scene of the crime—and this has happened in nearly all

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of the attacks in recent years—how likely and credible is that?

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Example 2: The perpetrators are identified to the public as
terrorist threats and as individuals known to the police.

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The attacker Anis Amri in Berlin in 2016 was
known to the authorities as a threat, just as, for

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example, Chérif Chekatt was in Strasbourg in 2018.

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The current perpetrator was also known to the
authorities and was under surveillance by

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intelligence agencies and the police at times.

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However, if we compare the incident at the 2016 Berlin Christmas
market with the comments made by former

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police officer, journalist, and security expert
Stefan Schubert, this is open to question.

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“And I received 20,000 documents from all the authorities, and I
was also able to speak with a counterterrorism investigator

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directly involved in the case, who drew my attention to exactly
that point and said: ‘We’ve been trying to arrest Anis Amri

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for a year and a half, but we can’t get an arrest warrant.’”

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"We’ve had one-on-one conversations with supervisors who said,
‘Leave the man alone!’—despite serious crimes,

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despite stabbings in the drug scene, despite direct ties
to ISIS, which was very, very active at the time."

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It is precisely the cell that Anis Amri…—Anis Amri did not act
alone; rather, he had a large ISIS network in Germany,

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which included, for example, Abu Wallah—who is
currently on trial and is trying to prevent his deportation.

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And that was the reason—my theory—that the intelligence agencies,
from the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution

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all the way up to the CIA, did everything in their power to
prevent the police from doing their job: arresting this dangerous

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man—whom everyone knew it wasn’t a question of if, but only when
he would carry out a terrorist attack—in order to track

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down the masterminds behind him, since his phone had also
been bugged and satellite tracking led to ISIS camps in Libya.

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"And that's exactly what the Americans did
without batting an eye. That's how the attack on

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Breitscheidplatz came about in the first place."

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Pattern 3: The perpetrators usually act alone and are shot
by the police, as happened in Berlin in 2016, in Munich in

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2016, and in Strasbourg in 2018, to name just a few examples.

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The same thing happened again in 2026: Abdul Ballout is said to
have been apprehended by the Berlin Police’s Special Operations

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Unit (SEK) at the Berlin-Spandau allotment garden complex.

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After he allegedly ran toward the officers
with a stabbing weapon, the officers opened fire.

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It remains unclear why the police
did not shoot the attacker in the leg.

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The Berlin Public Prosecutor's Office is remaining tight-lipped,
in part because of unclear witness statements

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regarding the number of shots fired. It is
said to be "the subject of an investigation."

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Pattern 4: Governments typically use terrorist
attacks as a pretext to expand general surveillance

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powers and thereby further restrict citizens' rights.

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Given the public's state of shock,
acceptance seems to be many times higher.

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Less than 12 hours after the rampage in Berlin on July 25, 2026,
Burkard Dregger, the CDU Berlin’s spokesperson on domestic policy,

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was already calling for the creation of a new oversight agency
that would “actively combat propaganda, hate, and incitement.”

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Let’s recall: Following the attacks of September 11,
2001, the so-called “USA PATRIOT Act” drastically

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curtailed the fundamental rights of the American people.

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Following the bombings on the London Underground
on July 7, 2005, the United Kingdom immediately

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pushed for the expansion of surveillance technology.

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In France, following the attacks in Paris on
November 13, 2015, cash purchases were strictly

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regulated and a state of emergency was declared.

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Following the shooting rampage in Munich on July 22, 2016,
Chancellor Angela Merkel issued a nine-point plan

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that includes preparations for domestic military
operations as well as further tightening of gun laws.

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Following the 2026 attack in Berlin, German Federal
Minister of the Interior Alexander Dobrindt is calling for ankle

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monitors and preventive detention for “potential threats.”

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“...that we make a political decision to impose
restrictions here and ensure that identified

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dangerous individuals are not released on probation.”

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I also find it doubtful that juvenile criminal law applies
in this case. We need to significantly increase protection.

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This means that the ankle monitor should be used.

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"Electronic monitoring as a means of restricting the freedom of
movement of individuals who pose a threat must be a

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mandatory measure, and there must be the option to use
preventive detention in Germany and throughout Germany."

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“In police terminology, ‘persons of
concern’ are individuals who may commit a crime.”

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"Because there is no evidence that would
hold up in court, they are, so to speak,

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'almost suspects,'" the Rheinpfalz wrote in 2018.

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The law does not define who or what constitutes a
“threat,” and the matter remains largely open to

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interpretation. This carries a high risk of abuse.

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So-called “potential threats” should therefore be
subject to detention if there is reason to believe they may

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commit serious politically motivated crimes in the future.

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Could people who behave in a politically incorrect manner or who
refuse to get vaccinated during a potential new “pandemic” be

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classified as “threats” in the future and,
for example, be monitored with ankle

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monitors or even placed in preventive detention?

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The call for greater security from politicians once again
appears to be an announcement of new restrictive

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measures for the public rather than an effort to protect people.

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If you would like to learn more about the patterns in the
terrorist attacks of recent years, we recommend the thoroughly

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researched brochure “Terrorist Attacks Under the Microscope.”

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In it, you'll see the alarming parallels
between the terrorist attacks of recent years

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and their actual causes, explained in detail.