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Halle assassin transferred to prison in Bavaria by helicopter – duration still unclear

2022-12-20T09:17:49.144Z


Halle assassin transferred to prison in Bavaria by helicopter – duration still unclear Created: 12/20/2022, 10:08 am By: Katarina Amtmann Last week, the Halle assassin took hostages in the JVA in Burg, on Tuesday he was temporarily relocated to Bavaria. Magdeburg/Augsburg - About a week after the hostage-taking in the prison in Burg near Magdeburg, the Halle assassin was transferred to Bavaria


Halle assassin transferred to prison in Bavaria by helicopter – duration still unclear

Created: 12/20/2022, 10:08 am

By: Katarina Amtmann

Last week, the Halle assassin took hostages in the JVA in Burg, on Tuesday he was temporarily relocated to Bavaria.

Magdeburg/Augsburg - About a week after the hostage-taking in the prison in Burg near Magdeburg, the Halle assassin was transferred to Bavaria.

Halle assassins transferred to JVA in Bavaria by helicopter

Early on Tuesday morning, December 20, the 30-year-old was flown to Augsburg by helicopter.

This was announced by the Ministry of Justice in Magdeburg.

The transfer was carried out by an armed special unit from the Saxony-Anhalt correctional system and accompanied by special forces from the police of the state of Saxony-Anhalt and the Free State of Bavaria.

It is unclear how long the Halle assassin will remain in the Augsburg-Gablingen prison.

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The defendant is led out of the courtroom in 2020.

Now he is temporarily in a prison in Bavaria.

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Halle assassin took hostages in JVA Burg - life imprisonment after the murder of two people

On Monday evening of last week (December 12) he had two employees in the prison prison in his power and wanted to force his way to freedom. Less than an hour later they were overpowered.

The public prosecutor's office in Naumburg is investigating the taking of hostages.

The 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.

He didn't succeed, so he murdered two people near the synagogue.

(came/dpa)

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