Halle assassin heard by investigators

Created: 12/14/2022 10:28 am

Assassin Stephan Balliet (l) in December 2020 in the courtroom.

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After the hostage-taking in the JVA Burg (Saxony-Anhalt), the Halle assassin was questioned by the investigators on Tuesday.

The German press agency learned this from security circles on Wednesday.

It is not yet known whether the prisoner commented on the incident.

Burg/Magdeburg - On Monday evening, the right-wing extremist Halle assassin temporarily took control of two employees in the JVA Burg.

The 30-year-old was overpowered by other correctional officers inside the prison.

"We are conducting intensive investigations," said a spokesman for the State Criminal Police Office (LKA) on Wednesday.

The LKA did not want to comment on the interrogation.

The Halle assassin is currently being held in a specially secured cell in the JVA Burg.

A relocation of the prisoner to another federal state is to be discussed again today.

On Wednesday afternoon, the legal committee in the state parliament meets in Magdeburg for a special session.

The issue of the extent to which an object was used during the hostage-taking, with which the prisoner is said to have threatened the servants, should again be discussed.

Saxony-Anhalt's Justice Minister Franziska Weidinger (CDU) said on Tuesday that she could not yet provide any detailed information.

You do not yet have any reliable information.

The Halle assassin was sentenced to life imprisonment and subsequent preventive detention in December 2020.

On October 9, 2019, Yom Kippur, the highest Jewish holiday, he tried to storm the synagogue in Halle and cause a massacre.

When he was unable to get onto the premises, he murdered a 40-year-old passer-by in front of the synagogue and a 20-year-old in a nearby kebab shop.

He injured other people while fleeing.

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