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Judicial officers lead the defendant Stephan Balliet into the courtroom.
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The attacker was sentenced to the maximum sentence for the racist and anti-Semitic attack in Halle.
Now he has received another punishment.
The public prosecutor's office wants to examine the verdict.
Naumburg/Magdeburg - After the verdict against the Halle attacker for taking hostages in Burg prison, the Naumburg Public Prosecutor's Office has filed an appeal.
In particular, they want to look at the reasons for the preventive detention not being ordered, said a spokesman for the public prosecutor's office on Wednesday.
In the trial, the prosecution had demanded a nine-year prison sentence followed by preventive detention.
The court sentenced the 32-year-old to seven years in prison on Tuesday and, citing proportionality, waived preventive detention.
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.
While he was serving his sentence in Burg prison, the criminal took prison staff hostage with a self-made weapon on December 12, 2022 in order to reach freedom.
The plan failed.
dpa