German authorities said the threat of far-right attacks had increased with the number of extremists and fringe … See more

The attack started around noon, on the Jewish holy day of Yom Kippur, at the synagogue in the Paulusviertel neighborhood of Halle. The attacker, Stephan Balliet, arrived there after a 45-minute driv… See more

In the first hours after the attack, security services worked on the assumption of multiple perpetrators. Later in the afternoon, Saxony-Anhalt's state minister of the interior Holger Stahlknecht declared that there was o… See more

The perpetrator, Stephan Balliet, a 27-year-old German neo-Nazi, lived in an apartment in Benndorf near Eisleben, with his mother. Born 10 January 1992, he grew up in Saxony-Anhalt and learned to handle weapons d… See more

At the event commemorating the 30th anniversary of the peaceful revolution in Leipzig, German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier called for solidarity with fellow citizens who were Jewish. Chancellor Angela Mer… See more