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The Halle attack shook Germany. On October 9 last year, Stephan Baillet attempted to blast his way into the city s synagogue,where 51 people were observing Yom Kippur, the holiest day in the Jewish calendar. He failed largely because his arsenal of homemade firearms and explosives couldn t breach the locked outer gates.
In frustration, he shot dead two other people.
Federal Prosecutor, Kai Lohse, emphasized that the assailant ‘’attacked Jewish life in Germany as a whole’’ and that the rampage was a product of his ‘’racist, xenophobic and antisemitic ideology.’’
“I commend the German justice system for imposing the harshest possible sentence on a heartless, vicious antisemite who attempted to murder Jews in a synagogue on the holiest day of the Jewish year, and took the lives of two innocent people who happened to be in his way,’’ said World Jewish Congress President Ronald S.Lauder after a German court sentenced to life in prison a far-right extremist who
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Stephan Balliet, 28, sentenced to life in German prison over synagogue attack
Balliet shot dead two people on the street after trying and failing to break into synagogue in Halle during the holiday of Yom Kippur to carry out a massacre
He admitted trying to attack synagogue during trial, calling Jews my enemies
Balliet apologised for killing one passer-by, because I didn t want to kill whites
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