DAILY DOSE | Suvivor of the Halle shooting attack, Neilli Rayvich, recounts the event with our Polina Garaev
Story: A gunman who killed two people in the German city of Halle published an anti-Semitic "manifesto" online over a week before carrying out the attack livestreamed online on Wednesday, according to reports.
The assault took place as Jews in the east German city of Halle marked the holy day of Yom Kippur on Wednesday, with the gunman streaming footage of the attack online while launching a diatribe against Jews.
A PDF document reportedly posted by the attacker to SITE, a website tracking online activity of extremist groups, shows "pictures of the weapons and ammunition he used and reference to his live stream," director Rita Katz wrote on Twitter.
Katz said the manifesto states the attacker's objective to "kill as many anti-whites as possible, Jews preferred."
German newspaper Die Walt reported that the document, numbering about 10 pages long and written in English, specifically notes a plan to attack a synagogue in Halle during Yom Kippur.
The graphic shooting was streamed live for 35 minutes on the Twitch platform and eventually seen by some 2,000 people before it was flagged and removed, the site said.
The Halle assailant is seen on camera preparing to commit the violent assault. In a heavy German accent, he is heard launching an anti-Semitic diatribe blaming Jews for being "at the root of problems" in Western societies.
The assailant was eventually captured after a gun battle with police that left him injured.
The footage and attack was a chilling reminder of the mosque attacks in Christchurch, New Zealand last March that were aired in real-time as a proclaimed right-wing extremist gunned down and killed over 51 people.
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