A right-wing extremist inmate took two prison employees hostage

In 2019, a right-wing extremist who carried out a deadly attack on a synagogue in the German state of Saxony-Anhalt held two employees hostage at a prison near Magdeburg. Other prison employees retaliated, injuring the inmate assailant and rescuing the hostages.

Germany’s Ministry of Justice confirmed the incident on Tuesday and said that 30-year-old Stefan Ballet took two prison employees hostage at a prison near the city of Magdeburg on Monday around 9:00 p.m. The hostage-taking jail employees, however, were not injured. Initially, it was not clear how the right-wing extremist ballot managed to transport these employees to Qam Jail at a specific location. This prison is located near the city of Magdeburg, about 100 km west of the German capital Berlin.

The incident on Monday made the German police very alert and took a major action. The incident is being investigated by the State Bureau of Criminal Investigation, which continues to investigate inside the jail. This jail has a capacity of more than 600 prisoners.

On the new date of October 2019, on the occasion of Yom Kippur, the holiest day of the Jews, 30-year-old Stephan Ballet tried to forcefully enter the synagogue in the eastern German city of Halle Zale. He had explosives and firearms. He was not allowed to enter the synagogue and the door was closed to him. As soon as the door was closed, the right-wing extremist Ballet opened fire on people nearby. In this incident, two people were killed by the attacker’s bullets and while fleeing from the scene, the attacker also injured two more people. Stephen Ballett pleaded guilty to the fatal attack and was sentenced to life in prison in 2020.

In 2020, when Stephen Ballett was on trial, he tried to escape from prison. He was then confined in Halle jail. During a yard exercise, one was trying to escape by jumping over a three and a half meter high fence. After jumping the fence, he was trying to escape from the prison for a few minutes before he was re-arrested.

He is currently serving his life sentence in a modern high-security prison in the German state of Saxony-Anhalt. Right-wing extremist inmate Stephen Ballett is considered a difficult inmate who does not cooperate at all with prison authorities.