After the attack in Halle by right-wing extremist Stephan B., he made a confession - now the federal prosecutor has brought charges against the suspect.
- A shootout occurred in front of a synagogue in Halle on Wednesday, October 9, 2019.
- Two people were injured, two were killed. This is known about the two victims.
- Stephan B., a 27-year-old German, confessed to the crime.
- You can read a summary of the events in Halle here.
Update of April 21 : Half a year after the attack on Halle an der Saale, the Federal Prosecutor's Office has brought charges against the suspect Stephan B. before the Higher Regional Court in Naumburg. He is accused of double murder and attempted murder in several cases , as the authority announced on Tuesday in Karlsruhe. Stephan B. planned out of an "anti-Semitic, racist and xenophobic sentiment" a murder attack on fellow citizens of the Jewish faith ".
After the attack in Halle: the assassin makes a shocking confession
Update of March 31, 12:21 p.m .: The alleged assassin from Halle an der Saale made a comprehensive confession . Stephan B . regret not killing more people and not meeting any migrants. According to research by WDR , NDR and the " Süddeutsche Zeitung ", the perpetrator announced to the investigators that he really only wanted to kill Jews.
According to the media reports, Stephan B. built his own weapons . He told investigators how he made them out of metal pipes and a 3D printer. Molotov cocktails and splinter bombs are also an in-house construction. He ordered used cartridges on the Internet and filled them himself. The perpetrator told investigators that he wanted to show the world how easy it is to make weapons.
Attack in Halle: shocking confession - perpetrators apparently guilty
The act was triggered by the attack on two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, in March 2019. 51 people were killed. B. said this was a turning point for him. Then he decided to arm himself. On the web, he met like-minded people - mostly from the United States . They strengthened each other in their hatred of Jews and women.
In October of last year, he attacked a filled synagogue during the celebrations of the Yom Kippur festival . Only the strong wooden door of the building could prevent a massacre. But because he did not succeed in the synagogue attack, he killed a woman on the street and entered a kebab snack bar. There he killed a man. Two people were injured in the attack .
Attack in Halle: the door of the synagogue saved lives
Update from February 8, 2:25 p.m .:
A newly surfaced surveillance video now brings several months after
Attack in hall new frightening details to light.
Update from October 22, 7:24 pm: Halle does not come to rest: Now a bloody attack in front of a youth welfare office has caused a stir.
Again there was an attack in Halle: shots were fired at the citizens' office of a SPD politician.
Update from October 17th, 7.35 a.m .: After the attack in Halle by right-wing extremist Stephan B., there are initial considerations as to what should happen to the door of the synagogue. The assassin tried to open the door with countless shots before abandoning his plans to storm the synagogue, which had over 50 people.
Attack in Halle: Synagogue door to be erected as a memorial
The unanimous opinion that the door saved the lives of the visitors to the synagogue through its intransigence. The head of the Jewish community in Halle, Max Privorozki, now indicated that the door should be preserved as a memorial and put up as such. Where exactly it will be will be decided in December, Privorozki said.
Attack on synagogue in Halle: "For me the door is really sacred"
For the chairman, holding the door is a miracle. "For me, the door is really sacred because it really saved us," Privorozki said. The synagogue will soon have a new door that is said to surpass the security of the previous door.
How exactly the door will be designed depends on the recommendations of an expert and the financial resources of the community. A video system that monitors the synagogue was installed a few years ago. At that time, the state of Israel had provided financial support to the community.
In Baden-Württemberg, a SEK mission is running after an argument: In Plochingen there are said to be two injuries with stab wounds and gunshot wounds.
Halle attack: the perpetrator obtained a weapon on the Internet - explosive details from a secret session
Update from October 15, 1.30 p.m .: The assassin from Halle applied to the Bundeswehr in September 2018. This was announced on Wednesday from a non-public meeting of the Interior Committee of the Bundestag, in which the Federal Attorney General Peter Frank also took part. According to the information, however, he later withdrew his application. Why he decided otherwise is not yet known. He had been doing military service for several months from 2010 to 2011.
The German press agency learned from the Bundeswehr that the man had applied for a team career. In 2019, he wrote an email one day before the selection process and said he would not apply. The reasons remained unclear. "We don't know," said the Bundeswehr.
Police raid apartment - explosive details from secret committee meeting after Halle attack
Update of October 15, 12.33 p.m .: According to dpa information, two men are now suspected of having distributed the manifesto of the assassin from Halle. Jan Steils, spokesman for the Mönchengladbach prosecutor's office, said that the accused's apartment had been ransacked. There is a suspicion that they would have distributed documents with incitement to the people shortly after the Halle attack. When asked whether this was the "manifesto" of the assassin, Steils said that was true. The 26 and 28 year old men are being investigated for sedition.
Update from October 15, 11:36: The assassin from Halle is said to have already got a firearm in the "Darknet" in 2015. This was reported by several participants in a non-public meeting of the Interior Committee of the Bundestag on Wednesday, citing Federal Attorney General Peter Frank. In the hidden part of the Internet, the perpetrator is said to have ordered components for the weapons that he himself built.
Video: Perpetrator von Halle admits right-wing extremist motive
After Halle attack: police search apartment - did suspect know about the planned crime?
Update of October 16, 10.30 a.m .: Search in Mönchengladbach: The police inspected a suspect's apartment on Wednesday morning. According to information from the Süddeutscher Zeitung , NDR and WDR , the latter is suspected of having spread the so-called “manifesto” of the assassin from Halle, Stephan B., on the Internet. And shortly after the first shots were fired.
Apparently, the suspect is now under investigation on suspicion of sedition. "With a view to the ongoing investigations, I cannot comment on the facts at the moment," said a spokesman for the public prosecutor's office in Mönchengladbach when asked about SZ.
The suspect reportedly stated that he did not know the Halle assassin personally. Nevertheless, the investigators of the special organizational structure (BAO) "Concordia" want to check whether Stephan B. had previously informed other people - such as the suspect from Mönchengladbach - about his planned act.
Update from October 15, 12.07: Frank Plasberg wants to discuss anti-Semitism in his program - but he and his team quickly find themselves accused of playing down the hatred of Jews.
Halle attack: police lost sight of perpetrators - new details on arrest
Update from October 14, 2019, 7.30 p.m .: As several state parliamentarians reported from a special meeting of the interior committee on Monday, the police lost sight of the assassin from Halle for an hour during his escape. In the end, he was not arrested by special forces, but by two police officers from the small town of Zeitz, as the SPD interior expert Rüdiger Erben explained.
The question of how the perpetrator was able to escape from Halle remains unanswered, which left-wing expert Henriette Quade regretted.
After Halle attack: tasteless reviews for kebab shops cause excitement - "Disgusting"
Update from October 14, 2019, 3:16 pm: The kebab shop "Am Kiez" was one of the crime scenes of the Halle attack last week. A man died in the snack bar. Nevertheless, there are now some supposedly funny, but very tasteless Google reviews for the kebab shop.
"One operator dropped everything all the time and the other hid behind the fridge," is one of the reviews. Another wrote: “Bad doner kebab. There is something red behind the fridge with the drinks ”.
And the comments are far from unique. A number of users complain about the Google review about the fact that the shop has closed: “Total cheek. In spite of the opening times given, it was simply too busy today, ”wrote one. In addition, a user had uploaded a screenshot from the offender's video to the Google images of the snack bar.
RT kotzend_einhorn "RT räuberhose: The glorification of the perpetrators and mockery of the victims is not limited to the platforms on the edge of the Internet. #Hall https://t.co/5Ll4ZFNSHd"
- 7081k472 (@__stuck) October 14, 2019A number of Internet users noticed the reviews and they also got excited about it online: "It's an insolence," wrote one Twitter user. "This is absolutely tactless and disrespectful," another. The word “disgusting” is often read on Twitter as a description of the reviews.
TV presenter Jan Böhmermann also became aware of the reviews and wrote a screenshot via Twitter: "This is the responsibility of Google Germany".
The company has apparently responded and removed the reviews.
This is the responsibility of @GoogleDE. @GoogleDE is responsible for this. Google Germany. https://t.co/QAXffxmQHw
- Jan Böhmermann (@janboehm) October 14, 2019After Halle attack: Saxony-Anhalt's Interior Minister publishes ten-point program
Update of October 14, 2019, 2:29 p.m .: According to allegations by the Central Council of Jews, there are ongoing discussions between the police and the Jewish community, says Interior Minister Stahlknecht.
Update from October 14, 2019, 2:25 p.m .: The offender was shot and escaped with a flat tire for just under an hour. Stahlknecht does not classify this as a police breakdown. The units had been informed and the perpetrators had been searched.
Update of October 14, 2019, 2:22 p.m .: Minister of the Interior Holger Stahlknecht presented a ten-point program following the schedule, with which Saxony-Anhalt should react to the attack in Halle. Among other things, this included:
- Round-the-clock surveillance of synagogues and mosques in Saxony-Anhalt until further notice.
- They also want to provide financial support for construction measures at synagogues for security. For example, you shouldn't be able to throw objects from outside through windows.
- More security guards. However, this cannot be handled by police officers alone.
After the attack on the hall and criticism of the police: the operational sequence is disclosed
Update from October 14, 2019, 2:19 p.m .: There were a total of calls to 23 different locations where the police were coming. A total of 740 officers were deployed.
Update from October 14, 2019, 2:11 p.m .: After the gunfire at the synagogue, the perpetrator shot a man in a kebab snack bar. He was there around 12.09 p.m. Because of the first incident, however, the police received so many emergency calls that the emergency call with regard to the kebab shop was initially put on hold. Immediately after the call was answered, the police came to the kebab shop. There was a shootout with the perpetrator.
He then fled with a car.
Update from October 14, 2019, 2:05 p.m .: At the press conference, the process of the killing spree is shown again. For this, the police emergency calls are used as sources.
The perpetrator acted at the synagogue shortly after 12 noon. Already at 12.03 a call from the synagogue announced a shootout. He is said to have said that there were probably already dead people on the street. At the same time there should have been another call.
From the first police emergency call at 12.04 p.m. to the arrival of the police at 12.11 p.m., it took just under seven minutes.
Update from October 14, 2019, 1:55 p.m .: Just one week after the attack in Halle, a special meeting of interior experts took place in Saxony-Anhalt today. It is about the political reappraisal of the killing spree. Interior Minister Holger Stahlknecht gave information about the results and the situation at a press conference. He announced a ten-point catalog that was now to be implemented in Saxony-Anhalt.
One is in exchange with the Jewish central organs and remains in contact in order to better protect the Jewish community, especially on high holidays. At a conference of interior ministers on Friday, they want to discuss federally what they want to change.
After Halle attack: CDU publishes corner paper for more security
Update from October 14, 2019, 1:22 p.m .:
Politicians want to draw consequences from the Halle attack. Security needs to be improved, it is said on all sides. The CDU has now drawn up a paper which it believes needs to be changed.
Above all, they want to better equip the security authorities and strengthen prevention work against extremism and anti-Semitism. In a key point paper, which the party leadership adopted on Monday in Berlin with some additions, states: "We need clear answers from society and the state to hatred and terror and effective instruments against their actors and networks."
The aim is to defend openly, tolerant and human coexistence with determination against the “enemies of our free democratic basic order”. Protecting all Jewish institutions and freedom of religion is a top priority. Likewise, anti-Semitism in everyday life - online and offline - must be countered consistently and from the beginning.
According to the will of the CDU leadership, operators of Internet platforms should be obliged to contact the law enforcement authorities on their own initiative in criminally relevant cases.
The CDU leadership also wants to extend the deletion periods for data on conspicuous people "to prevent extremists from disappearing under the radar just because they are" inconspicuous "for a certain period". In addition, it was considered necessary to extend the DNA storage period beyond ten years so that traces of serious crimes were not lost.
One wants to counter the enemies of liberal democracy "with all preventive, advisory and repressive means of the defensive constitutional state and a self-confident democratic society". The paper contains cornerstones of an action offensive against right-wing extremist terror as well as cornerstones of a trust offensive for our basic order. For prevention, the CDU wants more funds to be made available for programs to promote democracy in the federal government. School and youth exchange programs with Israel are to be expanded and financially strengthened.
After Halle: Seehofer sees danger in the gamer scene - Söder clearly contradicts him
Update from October 14, 2019: Horst Seehofers shared the gamer scene with the Halle attack. Now he gets headwind from his own party: CSU boss Markus Söder warned of blanket judgments against the gaming scene.
“Every negative development has to be seen. On the other hand, it is also clear that there can be no blanket judgments, ”said Söder on Monday before a CSU board meeting in Munich. "Because the gamers, and there are many, many young people, they do great things there." This is also an important industry. "In general, we are happy that the games scene exists at all." It was only important to "look where problems are, as everywhere".
In an ARD interview after the attack in Halle, Seehofer had initially explained: “The problem is very high. Many of the perpetrators or the potential perpetrators come from the gamers' scene. ”Some use simulations as a model.
He later warned more specifically that right-wing extremists were using gaming platforms for their purposes. "We see that right-wing extremists are using the Internet and gaming platforms as a stage for their illegal content," the CSU politician said on Twitter on Sunday.
After Halle: Seehofer sees danger in the gamer scene - Rezo then insults him
Update of October 13, 2019: Federal Foreign Minister Heiko Maas (SPD) has spoken out in favor of better protection of Jewish institutions after the attack in Halle. "It is terrorists, nothing else, that aim at Jewish institutions, and therefore Jewish institutions must be given the best possible protection," said Maas on Sunday in the ARD "Report from Berlin". It should be noted that there is legal terrorism in Germany. "Something has developed in Germany and not enough attention has been paid to it." On the other hand, more needs to be done by the state. “But civil society can do that too. Any of us can do it. And that is a task that we have in Germany. "
Rezo describes Seehofer as incompetent and "goofy".
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Rezo attacks Seehofer for comment on gamers: "How can you do your job so much ..."
First message from October 13, 2019: Halle - Last Wednesday, a heavily armed German tried to enter the synagogue in Halle, where around 50 believers celebrated the most important Jewish holiday, Yom Kippur. When the plan failed, he shot a 40-year-old passer-by and a 20-year-old man in a kebab shop. During his escape, he seriously injured a couple with gunfire. The 27-year-old perpetrator Stephan B. confessed and admitted anti-Semitic and extreme right-wing motives. He is in custody. The act caused horror worldwide. The Central Council of Jews spoke of a "deep shock" for all Jews in Germany.
"We have to take a closer look at the gamer scene" - Seehofer is receiving strong criticism for Halle's statement
Federal Interior Minister Horst Seehofer (CSU) has received a lot of criticism for his statements about the so-called gamer scene in connection with the attack on Halle. Seehofer told the ARD program "Report from Berlin" about the possible meaning of computer games in connection with the fact, "the problem is very high. We have to take a closer look at the gamer scene". Halle's assassin, Stephan B., was considered part of the gamer scene.
Seehofer told the ARD program that was to be broadcast on Sunday evening that many of the potential perpetrators came from the scene and would take simulations as a model. Therefore, one has to look closely whether it is still a computer game "or a covert planning for an attack". The statements can be heard in a section of the interview previously published by ARD on Twitter.
Rezo attacks Seehofer for Halle statement on gamers: "How can you screw up your job so much?"
The German Cultural Council rejected the statements. These obscured the real problem. "It's not games, but right-wing extremism is the problem," explained the managing director of the umbrella organization of cultural associations, Olaf Zimmermann.
HeToe Rezo, who became famous in the European election campaign with his video "The Destruction of the CDU", criticized Seehofer for his statements on Twitter: "How can you shit your job over and over again? He and his crew are really so incompetent. The most important thing: educate your parents and grandparents that nobody will vote for this party anymore. Otherwise it goes on and on with such doofies in positions of power. "
How can you shit your job over and over again? He and his crew are really so incompetent.
The most important thing: educate your parents and grandparents that nobody will vote for this party anymore. Otherwise it goes on and on with such doofies in positions of power. https://t.co/qcbhCJLrtN
Association of the German games industry accuses Seehofer of ignorance
The association of the German games industry, Game, spoke of a general suspicion by the Federal Minister of the Interior. This testifies "above all to ignorance and helplessness and distracts from the real social and political causes for such acts," said Game Director Felix Falk.
It should have long been clear that as little as films and books, computer games can be held responsible for hatred and violence, Falk continued. "The Federal Minister of the Interior should not helplessly blame a medium and its community, but should actively tackle the social problems of radicalization and increasing xenophobia, which lead to such terrible acts as in Halle."
Christian Lindner also criticizes Horst Seehofer
B. had filmed his attack and broadcast the recordings live on the Twitch gaming platform. The portal is actually meant for players to show others live how to play a video game. B. had set up his Twitch account just before the attack.
FDP leader Christian Lindner said of the Seehofer statements, "I can think of so many measures that should be taken to combat right-wing extremism - it is not one of them to put the gamer scene under general suspicion."
AFP