Germany is a three-ring circus.
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21-year-old Abdul Ballout was named as the suspect who drove a white van through a crowd at an LGBT festival in Berlin, then stabbed more people as he fled the scene.
Ballout is the son of Shia-Muslim migrants from Lebanon. He was born in Berlin.
In 2024, Ballout left Germany to go fight with ISIS. He ended up back in Lebanon.
Instead of classifying him as a terrorist, denaturalizing him (canceling his German passport), and reporting him to the Lebanese authorities, German officials brought Ballout back to Germany for trial.
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Ballout was convicted in 2025 and was only sentenced to a year in jail.
HOWEVER, the court delayed his jail sentence for six months until May 2026 to determine if counseling sessions would serve as a better punishment/deterrent. Prosecutors appealed, trying to keep Ballout behind bars.
In May, the court agreed that deradicalization therapy was the way to go, so Ballout was released on TIME SERVED and ordered to attend counseling to take away his bloodlust for Allah.
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In a twist that has shocked tens of people worldwide, the "deradicalization counseling sessions" didn't work!
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Ballout would not have been able to hurt anyone last weekend if German officials had had a spine.
He would have been in a German jail - or even better, in jail in Lebanon.
But like I said, Germany is a circus now.
And the circus demands a show!
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