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The eastern German city of Halle on Wednesday marked the fifth anniversary of an armed neo-Nazi attack on a synagogue which left two people killed and several injured. Church bells began ringing out at 12:03 pm (1003 GMT), the exact time when the first shots were fired at the synagogue on October 9, 2019, when an armed neo-Nazi tried to break into the city’s synagogue on the high Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur. The attacker failed to break through the synagogue’s locked door, despite multiple attempts. He fatally shot a passer-by, and then opened fire on a nearby kebab shop, killing a customer t…

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