Halle (dpa) - According to a report by a research team, on the day of the terrorist attack in Halle, several passers-by walked "quietly, almost indifferently" past the first victim.
This was reported on Friday evening WDR, NDR and "Süddeutsche Zeitung", citing a video from the surveillance camera in the attacked synagogue. "In the middle of a German city, a person lies gunned down on the asphalt, but passers-by continue," wrote the SZ.
A heavily armed German tried to enter the Halle synagogue on October 9, 2019, where believers celebrated Yom Kippur, the highest Jewish holiday. When the attacker failed, he shot a 40-year-old nearby - and a 20-year-old in a snack bar. The perpetrator seriously injured a couple while fleeing before he was arrested. The 27-year-old confessed to the attack and admitted extreme right-wing and anti-Semitic motifs.
According to the research team's report, the police first arrived at 12.11 a.m. ten minutes after the murder of the passer-by with only one patrol car. This coincides with statements by the State Interior Ministry, which published a minute log of the mission shortly after the attack.
According to SZ, an officer climbs out of the car "calmly" in the video, walks around the victim once and does not provide first aid. Investigators believe that the victim was already dead - the official also "checked" the woman lying down. According to the SZ, the policewoman waited "for minutes" afterwards, neither put on protective equipment nor held her gun.
According to the SZ, the video goes until 12.22 p.m. Up to this point, no emergency doctor had arrived who could have determined the death of the 40-year-old.
Already the evening after the attack there was criticism of the police operation. The police had been too late at the scene, the chairman of the Jewish community in Halle had said. An investigation committee in the state parliament of Saxony-Anhalt is to shed light on the police operation.
SZ report
