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The far-right assassin Halle took two employees hostage in a German high-security prison. The 30-year-old was overpowered after less than an hour on Monday evening.

The Ministry of Justice of Saxony-Anhalt confirmed the corresponding information from security circles. According to this information, around 9 p.m. in Burg near Magdeburg, the prisoner had temporarily seized control of two servants. The perpetrator was overpowered by other prison guards at the prison, it said.

The perpetrator was injured. According to the information, the employees were not physically injured, but are being cared for. The exact background of the crime is still unclear. This includes how exactly the prisoner managed to catch the servants.

Halle’s hitman, Stephan Balliet, was sentenced to life imprisonment and subsequent preventive detention on December 21, 2020. He is considered an uncooperative and difficult prisoner. In the Whitsun weekend 2020, he tried to escape from the prison in Halle as a defendant in the Halle trial. During a garden walk, he climbed a 10-foot fence and spent five minutes unsupervised looking for a way out of the prison before court officials caught him again.

On October 9, 2019, the far-right assassin attempted to storm the synagogue in Halle on Yom Kippur, the highest Jewish holiday, and cause a massacre. He threw incendiary bombs and explosives and shot at the entrance door. When he was unable to enter the premises, he killed a 40-year-old passerby in front of the synagogue and a 20-year-old in a nearby kebab shop. He injured other people during the flight. (aeg/sda/dpa)