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Kevin S. didn’t get an easy start in life, but he struggled. She had learning disabilities due to an epileptic seizure during childbirth. However, he graduated from school, did several internships and began training as a painter at a company in Halle in October 2019. It bothered him that the work week was only five days long. Ursula Mertens says she didn’t retire, she did something with her life.
She reminds you of the life and death of Kevin S. this Monday. He speaks with audible appreciation from Kevin S. Then he looks at Stephan Balliet, who is sitting to his left on the bench. “You have not been successful at all of this, Mr. Balliet, in your life in 27 years.”
On October 9, 2019, a Wednesday, Kevin S. took his lunch break at a kebab shop in Halle. Shortly after 12 noon, Stephan Balliet broke into this snack bar. He fired because he suspected there were Muslims in the store. Kevin S. had black hair, that was enough for the killer. The apprentice painter hid behind a refrigerator, seriously injured. Balliet killed him with multiple shots.
Focus on victims and survivors
Mankind must be protected from him, Mertens Stephan Balliet says to the face. A few minutes earlier, he announced the judgment against him by the Naumburg Higher Regional Court, which was in the Magdeburg Regional Court for reasons of space. Stephan Balliet is guilty of double murder and multiple assassination attempts. You will have to go to prison for life. The Senate, chaired by Mertens, has determined the particular gravity of the guilt and has ordered preventive detention.
Stephan Balliet was unable to get through the door of the synagogue in Halle with his self-made weapons.
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On the last day of the trial, the judge does what she did in the 24 days prior to the trial: she places the victims and survivors at the center, not the perpetrator. His nearly two-hour lecture begins with the other victim, Jana L. Boarded the tram in Halle on the morning of October 9. “It was a normal day for her.” Balliet shot Jana L. as she passed the synagogue, which the killer tried to enter for seven minutes. “With you, Mr. Balliet, there was no inhibition threshold.”
This is an important find, because the defense tried to present it this way: After Balliet couldn’t get into the synagogue because he couldn’t get through the heavy wooden door with his self-made weapons, he didn’t use his rental car to break through. the door. He had withdrawn from the synagogue and resigned from the attempt. The court doesn’t see it that way. Balliet just couldn’t get through the door. The people in the synagogue were lucky.
Other attacks as a model
51 Jews celebrated Yom Kippur in the synagogue. When some saw Balliet shoot the door on a screen, they did not run away but instead locked the doors and looked out for each other. Mertens calls them heroes.
Balliet had filmed his events himself and broadcast them on the Internet. He was inspired by other killers, notably Anders Breivik and Brenton Tarrant, and in turn wanted to inspire other perpetrators. In court he repeated his anti-Semitic, Muslim and misogynistic views. Balliet is a misanthrope who not only talks, but kills. That he regrets not having killed more people. Who would also kill children, he said himself when asked during the process.
