BGH confirms judgment: Halle assassin must serve additional years

BGH confirms judgment: Halle assassin must serve additional years

Burg, Sachsen-Anhalt, Deutschland - In a pioneering judgment, the Federal Court of Justice (BGH) legally confirmed the decision to host the hostage in the Burg correctional facility. This applies to Stephan B., who is already proven because of his role in a right -wing terrorist attack in Halle with lifelong prison sentence and subsequent preventive preventive detention. The case is particularly explosive, since B. made a failed attempt in December 2022 to escape from the detention center, taking two judicial officers as hostage dubisthalle.de reported.

The revisions, both by the public prosecutor and B. himself, against the judgment of the Stendal Regional Court were rejected as largely unfounded. In February 2024, the district court sentenced B. to seven years in prison for hostage and unauthorized manufacture and lead a firearm. This punishment is now added to the existing life sentence.

Details on the hostage -taking

The incident occurred on December 12, 2022, when B. brought two officials into his violence with a self -made firearm. While he was exposed to an official, he tried to get to the main lock with the other over the prison courtyard. But the official managed to flee, whereupon B. removed from his project. The active reaction of the prison officers and the rapid intervention of the emergency services prevented worse.

As part of the judgment, B. must also pay compensation for the affected civil servants in the amount of 23,000 euros, supplemented by replacement for their loss of earnings. The public prosecutor had tried to obtain a new preventive detention, but this was rejected, since the prevention that has already been ordered is sufficient to take into account the dangerousness of the perpetrator. This is thus the need for security of the general public, according to [Zeit.de] (https://www.zeit.de/gesellschaft/zeit-beschehen/2025-07/bundesgerichtshof-urteil-attaeter-halls-hallskraeftig- Geiseln- Geschnellnis), already covered by the previous judgment on lifelong prison.

a complex structure

Stephan B. enjoys a questionable celebrity among the detained criminals in Germany after he murdered two people in October 2019 with a racially motivated attack in Halle during the Jewish holiday. From the statistics of the Federal Center for Political Education, it shows that the number of prisoners in Germany has been declining since 2007, while about 1.1 percent of prisoners are sitting in preventive detention, which shows how society deals with severe criminal perpetrators, and how important the preventive measures are to prevent further acts, how bpb.de.

b. Now stays in custody and will ultimately spend longer in prison than originally planned. The judgment and the confirmed prison sentence ensure that it still cannot be dangerous for society. The case highlights the challenges and the complex topic of the criminal justice and the social situation of criminals in Germany.