Berlin's 'Rave the Planet' techno parade drew tens of thousands of revelers to the Tiergarten on Friday in its fifth edition, marking the capital's first major city-center event since an Islamist vehicle-and-machete attack at a Christopher Street Day celebration three weeks earlier that killed one woman and injured at least 31 people.
The procession moved along the Straße des 17. Juni between the Brandenburg Gate and the Victory Column, opening with a minute of silence for the July 25 victims. Police estimated attendance in the tens of thousands, while organizer Timm Zeiss put the figure above 200,000. Authorities deployed roughly 1,500 officers, helicopters, drones, and heavy mobile barriers at key points.
Police described the event as largely trouble-free relative to the crowd size, reporting 39 temporary arrests by the 10 p.m. close. Fire services logged only low double-digit emergency calls. A parallel 'Fuckparade' rally drew about 3,000 participants through central Berlin.