Status: 12/13/2022 7:23 a.m
The Halle assassin made headlines again: In his prison he was able to take two staff hostage for a short time – but he was overpowered and injured. The background is still unclear.
The right-wing extremist Halle assassin Stephan B. was overpowered in the Burg prison near Magdeburg after he was taken hostage. Several media report this in unison. Accordingly, around 9:00 p.m., the prisoner temporarily took control of two servants. He was overpowered and injured by other correctional officers inside the prison. According to the information, the employees were not physically injured, but are being cared for.
The exact background to the fact is unclear. This includes how exactly the prisoner was able to capture the servants. The hostage-taking prompted a large-scale police operation. The officers had taken up positions in front of the prison, heavily armed.
Sentenced to life imprisonment
The Halle assassin was sentenced to life imprisonment and subsequent preventive detention on December 21, 2020. He is serving his sentence in Burg prison. It is the largest and most modern high-security prison in Saxony-Anhalt.
B. is considered an uncooperative and difficult prisoner. On the Pentecost weekend of 2020, as a defendant in the Halle trial, he tried to escape from Halle JVA. During a yard walk, he climbed a 12-foot fence and spent five minutes unsupervised looking for a way out of prison before court officials took him back into custody.
On October 9, 2019, the right-wing extremist tried to storm the synagogue in Halle on Yom Kippur, the highest Jewish holiday, and to cause a massacre. He threw incendiary and explosive devices and shot at the access door. When he was unable to get onto the premises, he murdered a 40-year-old passer-by in front of the synagogue and a 20-year-old in a nearby snack bar. He injured other people while fleeing.