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Continued from Front the building. tioned feminism and "mass
It said a roughly 36-minute "The assailant shot sev- immigration" and said that
video posted online fea- eral times at the door and "the root of all these prob-
tured the assailant, who also threw several Molotov lems is the Jew."
spoke a combination of cocktails, firecrackers or The video, which apparent-
English and German, deny- grenades to force his way ly was filmed with a head-
ing the Holocaust before in," he said. "But the door mounted camera, showed
he shot a woman in the remained closed — God the perpetrator driving up
street after failing to enter protected us. The whole to the synagogue in a car
the synagogue. He then thing lasted perhaps five to packed with ammunition
entered a nearby kebab 10 minutes." and what appeared to be
shop and killed another A video clip shown on re- home-made explosives.
person before fleeing. gional public broadcaster He tried two doors and
Germany's top security of- MDR showed a man in a placed a device at the
ficial, Interior Minister Horst helmet and an olive-col- bottom of a gate, then
Seehofer, said authorities ored top getting out of a fired at a woman trying A man, wearing traditional Jewish clothing, reacts after he was
escorted by the police to a bus at a Jewish cemetery and syna-
must assume that it was an car and firing four shots to walk past his parked gogue in Halle, Germany, Wednesday, Oct. 9, 2019.
anti-Semitic attack, and from behind the vehicle car. The assailant then Associated Press
said prosecutors believe from a long-barreled gun. fired rounds into the syna-
there may be a right-wing Conrad Roessler said he gogue's door, which didn't ers to look for new outlets. Security was stepped up at
extremist motive. He said was in the kebab shop open. He drove a short dis- Federal prosecutors, who in synagogues in other cities
several people were hurt. when a man with a helmet tance to park opposite the Germany handle cases in- after the shooting in Halle.
The attack "strikes the Jew- and a military jacket threw kebab shop. He fired at volving suspected terrorism German officials rushed
ish community, Jewish peo- something that looked like what appeared to be an or national security, took to condemn the attack.
ple not just in Germany but a grenade, which bounced employee, while customers over the investigation into Chancellor Angela Merkel
particularly in Germany, to off the doorframe. He said scrambled away. the attack in Halle. visited a synagogue in Ber-
the core," said the country's the man then shot into the Twitch said it was "shocked Authorities said shortly after lin on Wednesday evening
main Jewish leader, Josef shop. and saddened" by the at- the shooting that a person in a show of solidarity.
Schuster. "It was, I think, "All the customers next to tack. "We worked with had been arrested, but "Shots being fired at a syna-
only lucky circumstances me ran, of course I did too. urgency to remove this advised residents to stay gogue on Yom Kippur, the
that prevented a bigger I think there were five or six content and will perma- indoors for several hours as festival of reconciliation,
massacre." of us in there," Roessler told nently suspend any ac- they worked to determine hits us in the heart," German
The filming of Wednesday's n-tv television. "The man counts found to be posting whether there were other Foreign Minister Heiko Maas
attack echoed another behind me probably died." or reposting content of this assailants. They gave no said on Twitter. "We must all
horrific shooting halfway "I hid in the toilet," he add- abhorrent act," it said in information on the suspect act against anti-Semitism in
around the world when a ed. "The others looked for an emailed response to a but Der Spiegel and dpa, our country."
far-right white supremacist the back entrance. I didn't query about Wednesday's which cited unidentified se- Anti-Semitism is a top con-
in March killed 51 people know if there was one. I events. It wasn't immedi- curity sources, said the sus- cern in Germany, where
at two mosques in Christ- locked myself quietly in ately able to confirm who pect is a 27-year-old Ger- reports of anti-Semitic in-
church, New Zealand and this toilet, and wrote to my streamed the footage. man citizen from Saxony- cidents rose 10% last year,
livestreamed much of the family that I love them, and Twitch, owned by e-com- Anhalt state, where Halle according to Tel Aviv Uni-
attack on Facebook. That waited for something to merce giant Amazon, is is located. They identified versity's Kantor Center and
massacre drew strong criti- happen." Police then came best known as a site for him only as Stephan B. where Merkel's govern-
cism of social media giants into the shop, he said. watching others play vid- Synagogues are often pro- ment earlier this year reaf-
for not immediately finding Schuster offered his con- eo games, sometimes with tected by police in Ger- firmed its commitment to
and blocking such a violent dolences to the relatives of commentary and tips for many and have been for protecting Jews who wear
video. "the two completely unin- viewers. Wednesday's at- many years amid concerns skullcaps from anti-Semitic
Wednesday's assault fol- volved people" who were tack appeared to be the over far-right and Islamic threats. Wednesday's at-
lowed attacks in the United killed and his sympathy to first real-world violence extremism, but Schuster tack drew renewed calls
States over the past year on those were wounded. Ger- livestreamed on Twitch, said that there was no from Jewish groups in the
synagogues in Pittsburgh man authorities didn't give said Hannah Bloch-Wehba, police presence outside U.S. to step up coopera-
and Poway, California. any details on the victims. a law professor at Drexel the Halle synagogue on tion in combating anti-
The head of Halle's Jewish The SITE Intelligence University. She said it was Wednesday. Semitism. "We have been
community, Max Privorozki, Group said the video on hard to guess why Twitch "I am convinced that if saying for several years
told news magazine Der livestreaming site Twitch was chosen, although she there had been police pro- that anti-Semitism is real, it's
Spiegel that a surveillance started with the assailant noted that recent attempts tection there, in all prob- resurgent, it's lethal and it's
camera at the entrance of saying "my name is Anon by Facebook and Twitter to ability the assailant would multi-sourced," American
the synagogue showed a and I think the Holocaust crack down on such mate- not have been able to at- Jewish Committee CEO
person trying to break into never happened." He men- rial may be forcing attack- tack a second site," he said. David Harris said.q