Halle synagogue shooting

Summary

The Halle synagogue shooting occurred on 9 October 2019 in Halle, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany, and continued in nearby Landsberg. After unsuccessfully trying to enter the synagogue in Halle during the Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur, the attacker, 27-year-old neo-Nazi Stephan Balliet fatally shot two people nearby and later injured two others. Federal investigators called the attack far-right and antisemitic terrorism.