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The attacker has already been sentenced to the maximum sentence for the racist and anti-Semitic attack in Halle.
Now he has received another punishment.
Magdeburg - The Halle attacker was sentenced to seven years in prison for taking hostages in Burg prison.
The Stendal regional court decided this on Tuesday.
He also has to make monetary payments to several injured parties.
Because of the racist and anti-Semitic attack near the synagogue in Halle, 32-year-old Stephan Balliet was sentenced to life imprisonment followed by preventive detention in 2020.
The new ruling will therefore initially have no practical impact.
At the start of the trial, the defendant confessed to having taken prison staff hostage with a self-made weapon on December 12, 2022 in order to gain freedom.
The plan failed.
In the trial, the Naumburg Public Prosecutor's Office had demanded a nine-year prison sentence for the 32-year-old and subsequent preventive detention.
In his plea, the defense attorney refrained from demanding a sentence.
In her verdict on Tuesday, presiding judge Simone Henze-von Staden referred to a report that concluded that the 32-year-old was a severely mentally disturbed person.
According to the judge, he showed a lack of empathy during the trial and was simply more interested in the prison's camera recordings.
Balliet tried to storm the synagogue in Halle and cause a massacre on October 9, 2019, the highest Jewish holiday, Yom Kippur.
When he failed, he murdered two people near the synagogue.
dpa