Attack on the synagogue on Yom Kippur (the assailant kills two passers-by)

The synagogue of Halle, in Saxony-Anhalt, is a small prayer room arranged in the former mourning house of the Jewish cemetery. On October 9, 2019, on Yom Kippur, around fifty worshippers were gathered there when a man attempted to force open the wooden door with homemade weapons and explosives. The door held. Unable to enter, the attacker shot a woman passing in the street and then a customer at a nearby Turkish snack bar, before being apprehended. He had livestreamed his attack on the internet and published a text denying the Shoah. The trial, held in Magdeburg, concluded with a sentence of life imprisonment. Germany subsequently funded the physical protection of the country's synagogues, many of which had none whatsoever.