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The 28-year-old is convicted of two murder cases and an attempted murder of more than 50 people. The penalty is life imprisonment and so-called security detention, which means that the convicted person remains in detention even after serving a sentence. This is justified by the fact that the public must be protected from the person.
That was it On November 9, 2019, when an armed man tried to enter the synagogue in Halle, where some 50 people celebrated the Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur. When he was unable to enter through the building’s security doors, the man shot a woman in the street and a man in a nearby kebab restaurant. They both died. Two more people were shot.
Before the event, the 28-year-old had posted a “manifesto” online. He filmed and broadcast the events live with the help of a camera connected to a helmet on his head.
Judge Ursula Mertens has been forced several times during the trial to interrupt the defendant, who laughed, spoke in a racist manner and denied prejudice.
Photo: HENDRIK SCHMIDT
German media like Following the suspect’s trial describes a man completely devoid of guilt and remorse. He speaks with disdain about the victims, about Jews and people from other countries. On several occasions he has denied that the Holocaust occurred. About the murder of a woman outside the synagogue, he says he fired “for safety.”
43 people have been plaintiffs. These are, among others, people who were inside the synagogue, people who were injured by the perpetrator and relatives of the victims. The MDR radio channel has published some of his statements, including one from a woman who was in the synagogue when the man tried to enter.
– What still haunts me – and I don’t know if it will ever change – is that two people are dead, because I live. I can’t get over it, he said according to MDR.
Another woman said she hoped the man would be sentenced to life in prison.
– But he is only a symptom of a far-right ideology of “white supremacy”, which is seeping into politics and the media. Not just in Germany, but around the world, he said.
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The 28-year-old man she lived in a small community near Halle with her mother. During the trial, the man has provided detailed answers to Judge Ursula Merten’s questions about how he prepared and carried out the attack. He has been less willing to answer questions about the 28-year-old’s social life and childhood.
– Naturally, one wonders how these actions can be prevented. But I have no interest in that, the man said during the trial, according to the daily Die Zeit.
Many of those who testified during the trial describe how, just over a year after the act, they still suffer from what they have been through. Shortly after the incident, the president of the Halle Jewish community, Max Privorozki, told the Süddeutsche Zeitung newspaper that he no longer felt at home in Germany.
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