• Attack: Two dead in an anti-Semitic attack in Germany with the stamp on the far right
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The profile of the 27-year-old who yesterday tried to provoke a bloodbath in the Halle synagogue in the midst of the Yom Kippur celebration, coincides with that of other lonely wolves who radicalize on the internet and become rabid avengers of their own weaknesses and lacks

"My son was not in a pure state with the world and neither with himself," Stephan B.'s father, a young man without friends and sparing in words, told the newspaper 'Bild'. "He spent a lot of time at home, his world was internet, he was always online," says the father, who lived apart from the family. Stephan resided with his mother and sister in Ort Benndorf, near Halle.

When he finished high school he enrolled in Chemistry, studies that interrupted two semesters after a complicated stomach operation. According to his father, he did military service, but, once licensed, did not return to university. Nor did he take any professional training or apprenticeship course.

Neighbors of the family, which they describe as quiet and very normal, argue that Stephan worked lately as a radio technician.

His radicalization was silent, his contacts with the extreme right were on the internet. His name does not appear in the information system of the Interior's secret services, the so-called NADIS, and lacks a criminal record.

Stephan recorded his assault on the synagogue and, faced with the rage of not having been able to carry out his plan, fired at random. First he killed a woman who happened to pass casually near the temple and shortly thereafter a man who went to a Turkish fast food establishment. Before he fled, he shot several people waiting at the tram station. Two of them were injured and had to be intervened. They are out of danger.

Stephan lived in his own world, contaminated by anti-Semitism, racism and xenophobia. He recorded his action and shared it in 'streaming' through the Twitch platform. Half a dozen people followed it live and another 2,200 in the half hour that the 35-minute recording remained online. It was deleted after a user's complaint.

Twitch has been moved by the event and stressed that the portal has a "zero tolerance" policy with violence and hate. "We work urgently to remove this content and we will permanently suspend accounts that hang or share the content of this abhorrent act," he said in a statement.

The Attorney General's Office now looks for Stephan's footprints on the internet to find out how and where he supplied the weapons and explosives with which he was equipping. His escape ended up on a highway, where he was stopped, after suffering an accident with the vehicle he had stolen.

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