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Investigators from Lower Saxony have been searching for members of the RAF terrorists for decades.
Now they have a coup to announce.
Hanover - Pre-trial detention has been ordered against former RAF terrorist Daniela Klette.
Investigators accuse her of several robberies.
This was announced by the Verden public prosecutor and the Lower Saxony State Criminal Police Office on Tuesday at a press conference in Hanover.
An investigating judge issued six arrest warrants.
Investigators arrested Daniela Klette on Monday evening in an apartment building in Berlin-Kreuzberg.
She offered no resistance, said Friedo de Vries, President of the Lower Saxony State Criminal Police Office.
On Tuesday, uniformed police officers stood in front of the seven-story building.
The entrance was blocked.
Forensic scientists were on site and examined the apartment in question near the former border between West and East Berlin.
According to the Lower Saxony State Criminal Police Office, Klette was flown by helicopter to Bremen on Tuesday and from there taken to the Verden district court.
A judge issued the arrest warrants against the 65-year-old.
At the request of the Verden public prosecutor, a search warrant was also issued for the apartment.
According to their own statements, investigators found two magazines, a pistol and cartridges there.
The Verden public prosecutor's office and the Lower Saxony State Criminal Police Office have been searching for former RAF terrorists Burkhard Garweg (55), Ernst-Volker Staub (69) and Daniela Marie Luise Klette (65) for decades.
They are assigned to the so-called third RAF generation.
Representatives of this generation are said to have killed the then head of Deutsche Bank, Alfred Herrhausen, and the head of the Treuhand, Detlev Karsten Rohwedder.
However, the perpetrator and motive are still unknown to this day.
Rohwedder was shot dead at his desk in his home in Düsseldorf on April 1, 1991.
The RAF command claimed responsibility for the crime.
Rohwedder was targeted from an allotment area and more than 60 meters away.
It was the last assassination attempt attributed to the RAF.
The authorities accuse Garweg, Staub and Klette of attempted murder and a series of aggravated robberies between 1999 and 2016.
The crime scenes were therefore in Lower Saxony and North Rhine-Westphalia.
The public prosecutor's office assumes that the attacks were not politically motivated.
The accused are said to have committed the crimes in order to get money.
According to dpa information, Klette is suspected of being involved in a gun attack on the US embassy in Bonn in 1991.
It is also suspected that she was involved in an explosive attack on the Weiterstadt correctional facility in 1993. Traces indicate that she was also at the crime scene during an anti-terror operation in 1993 in Bad Kleinen, Mecklenburg.
The police officer Michael Newrzella and the RAF man Wolfgang Grams died in the action.
Former RAF terrorist Birgit Hogefeld was arrested.
dpa