Germany's Jewish community demands greater security after 2 killed in synagogue shooting in Halle in eastern Germany.
The suspected gunman was later arrested, a police spokesman confirmed Wednesday.
"This right-wing extremism motivated attack dismays us all," governor of the western state Northrhein-Westphalia, Armin Laschet, told the German news outlet Spiegel Online."We live in times, where right-wing radical terror is killing people, in Germany, right amongst us." Josef Schuster, president of the Central Council of Jews in Germany, called the absence of police guards outside the synagogue on holy day"scandalous." It took more than 10 minutes for police to arrive, he said.
The synagogue in Halle — a city of less than 300,000 people — has technological security measures but no permanent guard around the close, Max Privorozki, the head of the Jewish community in Halle said in video on Twitter. A volunteer guard was on watch when the shots rang out and police responded soon after.
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