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Magdeburg (dpa / sa) - Survivors of the right-wing terrorist attack in Halle have again criticized the behavior of the police after the attack.
"They did not see us as the victims we were," said the Berlin rabbi Jeremy Borovitz on Wednesday in the state parliament's committee of inquiry about the attack.
The officers treated the survivors like suspects.
"I had just had the worst day of my life and I would have liked you to have seen it," said the clergyman.
As with his testimony in court and like other survivors of the attack, Borovitz complained that the police had acted insensitively, disrespecting the Jewish liturgy and without adequately informing those affected about the events.
"If someone had just asked us," What do you need? ", It would have changed the situation completely."
After Borovitz, other survivors from the synagogue testified before the committee that is supposed to investigate the police operation on the day of the incident.
On October 9, 2019, a terrorist tried to storm the synagogue in Halle on Yom Kippur, the highest Jewish holiday, and to cause a massacre.
He threw incendiary devices and explosives and shot at the access door, but did not get on the premises.
He then murdered 40-year-old passer-by Jana L. in front of the synagogue and 20-year-old Kevin S. in a nearby kebab shop. During the subsequent escape, he injured other people.
The higher regional court in Naumburg sentenced the 28-year-old assassin to life imprisonment and subsequent preventive detention and determined the particular gravity of the guilt.