Daniela Kelta, member of the Bader-Meinhof gang/screenshot, Interpol
The authorities in Germany arrested Daniela Kalte, who was a former member of the Bader-Meinhof gang and wanted for decades for armed robbery and attempted murder.
Kalte, 65, was arrested on Monday in an apartment in Berlin.
Kalte was a member of the "Third Generation" of the extreme leftist terrorist organization, whose official name was the Red Army Faction.
She was wanted along with two other members of the group, Burkhard Gerweg and Arens-Volker Statov, for a string of robberies and at least one attempted murder.
"She expressed no objection," said Ferido de Vries, head of the criminal investigation department in the state of Lower Saxony, at a press conference he called yesterday.
According to him, she had a foreign passport with a different name, and she was identified thanks to fingerprints.
At the end of the press conference, he said that he had received information that another person had been arrested in Berlin, but said that his identity was not yet known.
Police stepped up their efforts to catch the fugitives after receiving information from the public in November.
An appeal for more information was broadcast on a popular TV crime show two weeks ago, and has resulted in about 250 additional leads that police are still processing.
"We will fight terrorism with all legal means," said Lower Saxony's interior minister, Daniela Behrens.
"Terrorists will never be able to feel safe, not even after 30 years."
Prosecutors said police confiscated cartridges and ammunition suitable for the gun at an apartment building in the central Berlin district of Kreuzberg, where a lone tape was found.
She was later taken by helicopter to a prison in the northern city of Bremen.
The first generation of the Red Army Faction, founded among others by Andreas Bader and Ulrike Meinhoff, grew out of the German student protests against the Vietnam War.
The organization took hostages and murdered at least 33 people, including public officials, police officers, businessmen and American soldiers, at the height of its activity in the 1970s.
Kellett, Garwaugh and Staub are suspected of committing a string of robberies between 1999 and 2016 to support their high-stakes lives.
However, the crimes for which they are wanted were not committed in the name of the organization, which disbanded in 1998 when he sent an anonymous letter to the Reuters offices in Cologne.
In the letter, the remaining members stated that "the urban guerrilla group of the Red Army faction is now history."
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