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Magdeburg (dpa / sa) - Survivors of the right-wing terrorist attack in Halle have repeatedly criticized the behavior of the police in the state parliament's investigative committee after the attack.
On Friday (9 a.m.), the panel now wants to question the police about victim support on October 9, 2019.
The committee has invited two officers from the Halle police who were involved in leading the operation.
On October 9, 2019, a heavily armed terrorist tried to break into the synagogue in Halle on Yom Kippur, the highest Jewish holiday, and to cause a massacre.
However, he did not get into the church, then shot the 40-year-old passer-by Jana L. and later the 20-year-old Kevin S. In a kebab shop, he injured other people and engaged in an exchange of fire with the police before he was arrested.
The higher regional court in Naumburg sentenced the man to life imprisonment with subsequent preventive detention and determined the particular gravity of the guilt.
In court he justified the act with anti-Semitic and racist conspiracy theories.
The investigative committee in the state parliament
primarily examines the police operation on the day of the incident.
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Many survivors from the synagogue and the other crime scenes had criticized the behavior of the police after the deployment as insensitive and disrespectful.
For example, the police officers did not take the Jewish liturgy into consideration, did not adequately protect the victims from the public eye and did not take care of their accommodation.
In addition to victim support, according to committee chairman Sebastian Striegel (Greens), on Friday there will also be an exchange of fire between the police and the assassin.
For this purpose, three police officers have been summoned who had already testified in court.