Magdeburg/Burg (dpa/sa) – After the assassin took hostages in the JVA Burg by the assassin from Halle, no decision has yet been made about a possible transfer of the prisoner. The matter is being examined, a decision is still pending, a spokesman for the Ministry of Justice told the German Press Agency on Thursday. The ministry did not comment on the details.
The 30-year-old prisoner seized control of two prison staff on Monday evening and wanted to force his way to freedom. He was overpowered in less than an hour. The Halle assassin is currently being held in a specially secured cell in the JVA Burg. A transfer to another federal state is in the room.
When the hostage was taken, the man is said to have used an allegedly self-made object to threaten the employees. According to the head of the institution, Ulrike Hagemann, it was a rolled sheet of paper that had been reinforced with a pencil. There was also a piece of metal on it, like a kind of hinge from a cupboard or a toilet seat.
It is examined whether the item is suitable as a weapon or whether it is a dummy weapon or dummy. The Attorney General and the State Criminal Police Office did not want to comment on the status of the investigation on Thursday.
The assassin was sentenced to life imprisonment and subsequent preventive detention in December 2020. On October 9, 2019, Yom Kippur, the highest Jewish holiday, he tried to storm the synagogue in Halle and cause a massacre. When he failed, he murdered two people near the synagogue.
