Medical emergency
Halle attacker probably transferred from custody to hospital
May 18, 2024, 1:03 p.m
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In 2019, Stephan Balliet killed two people in Halle for racist and anti-Semitic motives. Since then it has been guarded under the highest security precautions. Now he has to be treated in hospital for health problems – “under a heavy police presence.”
The Halle attacker was taken to a hospital in Erfurt because of health problems. This was reported unanimously by the “Mitteldeutsche Zeitung” and the “Bild” newspaper. According to “Bild”, Stephan Balliet is said to have a ruptured spleen and does not want to undergo surgery. A spokesman for the Thuringian Ministry of Justice said that an inmate was admitted to the clinic in Erfurt on Friday because of health problems.
The assassin is serving his sentence in the Tonna correctional facility near Bad Langensalza in Thuringia. The Gotha State Police Inspectorate had stated that “a prisoner in custody was escorted from a correctional facility to an Erfurt hospital and given medical care.” The prisoner was cared for “under a heavy police presence”. The officials did not provide any further information – “for police tactical reasons.”
Because of the racist and anti-Semitic attack near the synagogue in Halle in Saxony-Anhalt, Balliet was sentenced to life imprisonment followed by preventive detention in 2020. On October 9, 2019, the highest Jewish holiday, Yom Kippur, he tried to storm the synagogue in Halle and cause a massacre. When he didn’t succeed, he murdered two people near the synagogue.
In February of this year, Balliet was also sentenced to seven years in prison for taking hostages in Burg Prison. He said he wanted to break out of prison.