After the assassin took hostages in Halle in the JVA Burg, a decision on a possible transfer of the prisoner to another federal state is still pending.

"The possibility of a transfer will continue to be examined by the judiciary of the state of Saxony-Anhalt," said a spokesman for the Ministry of Justice in Magdeburg of the German Press Agency.

The spokesman did not confirm media reports that the assassin was on a hunger strike. "Right now he's eating and drinking," he explained that night. However, the assassin had "not eaten in the last few days".

The 30-year-old had seized power over two employees in the prison on Monday evening and wanted to force his way to freedom. He was overpowered in less than an hour. The Halle assassin is currently being held in a specially secured cell in the JVA Burg.

The man was sentenced to life imprisonment and subsequent preventive detention in December 2020. On October 9, 2019, Yom Kippur, the highest Jewish holiday, he tried to storm the synagogue in Halle and cause a massacre. When he failed, he murdered two people near the synagogue.