The antisemitic attack in Halle

„Hello, my name is anon, and I think the holocaust never happened“, says Stephan Balliet into a camera before killing two people in Halle on Wednesday. Balliet’s intention was to storm a synagogue and, with the help of homemade weapons and explosives, commit a massacre there on Yom Kippur, the holiest Jewish holiday. Despite being armed, he did not succeed in penetrating the synagogue. He threw his hand grenades over a wall of the Jewish cemetery. Increasingly desperate that his plan to „kill as many Jews“ was failing, he shot a passer-by in the back. She died. Balliet wanted to kill as many Jews as possible because, in his opinion, Jews are to blame for all the evil in the world.