German federal prosecutors released Monday a second person detained in connection with the Berlin Pride attack and said the investigation continued broadly; Reuters separately cited Spiegel's sourced report that an initial suspicion the person had been a passenger could not be upheld, but prosecutors gave no further account of grounds, conditions, continuing status, or final findings. [1]

The release follows the July 26 account separating the first suspect's fatal police encounter from the original attack and does not alter the locked July 25 record of exactly 17 casualties, one dead and 16 surviving injured. [1]

Release changes custody only: it does not establish innocence, exoneration, complicity, investigative failure, motive, or what authorities could have prevented, and it says nothing about the separate review required for police killing the first suspect after officers said he advanced with a bladed weapon.

The next governing records are specific: prosecutors can state whether the released person remains under investigation, courts can disclose any release conditions, investigators can identify the evidence that supported detention and later changed, and an independent process can examine the separate police shooting without borrowing conclusions from the custody decision.

No exact X status was authorized, so platform verdicts remain unobserved; the honest July 27 record contains one released person, a continuing investigation, the unchanged 17-person historical toll, and open questions about role, motive, prevention, and police force.

-- KATYA VOLKOV, Moscow