Stephan Balliet is charged with killing two people after trying to storm a synagogue in Halle, eastern Germany. MAGDEBURG, Germany: A German court is to hand down its verdict on Monday on a deadly far-right attack in Halle last year that nearly became the country's worst anti-Semitic atrocity since World War Two.
"The attack on the synagogue in Halle was one of the most repulsive anti-Semitic acts since World War Two," prosecutor Kai Lohse told the court in the nearby eastern city of Magdeburg as the trial wrapped up. The attack bore some of the hallmarks of two carried out and similarly live-streamed some months earlier in Christchurch, New Zealand by Brenton Tarrant, who killed 51 people. Balliet cited Tarrant as an inspiration.
"If that guy would have been able to get into a synagogue... it would have had a tremendous impact on German identity after the war and the fight against anti-Semitism," he told AFP in an interview.
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