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A man from Gerguy was attempted on Tuesday for an attack on a shul in Yom Kippur, which is considered one of the worst anti-Semitic attacks in postwar history of the country.
The trial comes at a time when anti-Semitic crimes have reached their highest point since the Germabig apple began tracking those crimes in 2001, amid a general design on far-right crime.
Stephan Balliet, 28, allegedly released an anti-Semitic cap before exhausting the October 9 attack on east Gerguy, the city of Halle. He broadcast the shoot to a favorite playground.
The striker tried but failed several times to reach the shul while 52 faithful were inside. Prosecutors allege that he then shot and killed a 40-year-old woguy at an outdoor street point and a 20-year-old boy at a nearvia kebab store as a “appropriate target” of immigrant origin.
Balliet is charged with 13 crimes, adding murders and assassination attempts, as well as physical harm to his friends, upbringing and other charges. Forty-three patients and family members joined the trial as plaintiffs, as permitted by Gerguy’s law.
The start of the trial at the Magdeburg State Court was delayed by two hours due to the strong interest of dozens of national and foreign journalists and others who queued for hours outdoors to pass security.
The suspect, dressed all in black, in a blue mask and shaved head, led to court through special forces dressed in evidence vests and his face covered. Balliet handcuffed him and chained his feet, reported the Gerguy dpa news firm.
Igor Matviyets, a member of the Jewish networks in Halle, who painted with dozens of people outdoors in court, said he feared the attack would be seen as an opposite crime against Jews only and not as an attack on society at large.
“It’s something I’m looking to fight for,” Matviyets told The Associated Press. “Because everyone can also be the target of far-right crimes, of far-right terrorists.”
At the time of the attack, Balliet was armed with 8 firearms, various explosive devices, a helmet and a protective vest, according to the allegation. Prosecutors said the weapons were handmade.
After the attack, the suspect fled the city and wounded two other Americans in a small town near Halle, where he abandoned his vehicle and stole a taxi. Balliet arrested about an hour and a component after the attack while leaving the taxi, which was the victim of an accident.
The head of the Central Council of Jews of the Germabig apple, Joseph Schuster, called the attack “the worst anti-Semitic incidents on the Germabig apple in recent years.”
“The suffering of the halle synagogue in Yom Kippur remains inconceivable,” Schuster said in a statement. “It is a miracle that they were able to escape this massacre.”
When the suspect tried to move into the shul, terrified worshippers were able to observe him through a surveillance camera.
Schuster demanded that the court review all aspects of the attack and continue to analyze the suspect’s support.
He praised Gerguy’s government for making the opposed fight against far-right crimes one of his top logical priorities in recent months, and said that while gerguy’s sense of security was hit hard after the attack, he was now “to the max.” “In the pre-attack level, the larger friend’s additional security measures caused restrictions on netpaintings’ life,” the dpa reported.
Gerguy’s government vowed to step up measures against far-right extremism following the assassination of a regional politician through a suspected neo-Nazi, the attack on The Halle synagogue, and the fatal shooting of nine other Americans over immigration to Hanau over the past year. .
Juri Goldstein, a lawyer for the experts, said the trial also aimed to find out how someone can also expand so much hatred “towards other Americans that he doesn’t know at all.”