15 September 2020, Saxony-Anhalt, Magdeburg: At the beginning of the twelfth day of the trial, the accused Stephan Balliet sits next to his defence lawyers Hans-Dieter Weber (l) and Thomas Rutkowski in the Regional Court. The Federal Prosecutor's Office accuses the assassin of Hall 13 of criminal offences, including murder and attempted murder. The assassin had tried to cause a bloodbath in the synagogue in Halle on 9 October 2019, the highest Jewish holiday Yom Kippur. Photo: Hendrik Schmidt/dpa-Zentralbild/ZB (Photo by Hendrik Schmidt/picture alliance via Getty Images)
The perpetrator of a terrorist attack on a synagogue in Halle, Germany denied the Holocaust during his closing statement in court. Stephan Balliet, a far-right extremist, has confessed to killing two people…