[HIGHLIGHTS] Halle attacker Stephan Balliet sentenced to seven years in prison for taking hostages

Halle attacker Stephan Balliet sentenced to seven years in prison for taking hostages. In 2019, he tried to storm the synagogue in Halle an der Saale and killed two people.

Now he has been found guilty again and sentenced to life imprisonment followed by preventive detention in 2020. For security reasons, the 1st Large Criminal Chamber of the Stendal Regional Court did not hear the case in the local court, but in Magdeburg. More soon at SPIEGEL.de.