Magdeburg/Burg (dpa/sa) – After the hostage-taking in the JVA Burg by the Halle assassin, MPs are pushing for more information before the special session of the Legal Affairs Committee in Parliament. “I expect that we will receive clarification,” said Christian Hecht (AfD), chairman of the German Press Agency on Wednesday. Justice Minister Franziska Weidinger (CDU) must inform the MPs in more detail than on Tuesday, said Hecht.
On Monday evening, the right-wing extremist Halle assassin temporarily took control of two employees in the JVA Burg. The 30-year-old was overpowered by other correctional officers inside the prison.
On Wednesday afternoon, the legal committee in the state parliament meets in Magdeburg for a special session. According to information from the German Press Agency, the head of the JVA Burg, Ulrike Hagemann, should also provide information about the circumstances of the incident.
The issue of the extent to which an object was used during the hostage-taking, with which the prisoner is said to have threatened the servants, should again be discussed. Justice Minister Franziska Weidinger (CDU) said on Tuesday that she could not yet provide any detailed information. You do not yet have any reliable information.
He expects “finally some information” in the committee meeting, said Sebastian Striegel (Greens) on Wednesday. Karin Tschernich-Weiske (CDU) said that facts and established facts had to be presented at the meeting. Guido Kosmehl (FDP) had already stated on Tuesday that the open questions about the crime had to be answered.
The Halle 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 to get to the site, he murdered two people near the synagogue.
