Magdeburg/Burg (dpa/sa) - After the hostage-taking in the prison in Burg, the Greens in the state parliament are pushing for a special session of the legal committee on Tuesday in the state parliament. "We now have to get reliable information quickly," said the parliamentary director Sebastian Striegel of the German Press Agency on Tuesday. He was "extremely concerned" that after the assassin's attempt to break out of the Halle prison and an attempted attack in the court after the verdict was announced, the prisoner had again caused "a serious security incident".
On Monday evening, the right-wing extremist Halle assassin, Stephan Balliet, temporarily took control of two employees in the JVA Burg. The 30-year-old was overpowered by other correctional officers inside the prison, the Justice Department said. The act lasted less than an hour.
The state parliament will meet in Magdeburg on Tuesday. In this context, Minister of Justice Franziska Weidinger (CDU) could inform the members of the Legal Affairs Committee about the incident at short notice.
