Posted on 12/21/20
| News Source: i24
Attacker said to show little remorse in his final statement at the trial
A German court handed Monday a life sentence to the man behind the deadly Halle shooting in early October 2019, on the Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur.
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The attacker, a far-right radical, first tried to breach the doors of the synagogue, where some 52 worshippers were present at the moment, resulting in over 50 counts of murder.
He was also charged with two counts of murder, killing a woman that was passing by the synagogue and a man at a nearby kebab shop after he failed to make it into the temple.
In his closing statement, the attacker did not appear to show much remorse for his plot, which could have amounted to the worst anti-Semitic incident in Germany, Deutsche Welle reports. Read more at i24