The right-wing extremist who carried out the deadly 2019 attack on a synagogue in Halle, Germany, briefly held two prison employees hostage and was injured as he was overpowered by other staff inside the facility near the city of Magdeburg. Stephan Balliet, 30, had taken two staff members hostage at around 9 pm on Monday evening for about one hour, the Justice Ministry confirmed early Tuesday. The staff members held hostage were not injured, it said. It was initially unclear how Balliet was able to take the employees hostage at the prison in Burg, some 100 kilometres west of Berlin and a short…