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The leading RAF terrorist Daniela Klette lived in this house in Berlin until her arrest © Paul Zinken/dpa
Even after the arrest of the former terrorist Daniela Klette, the investigative work is ongoing.
A man who was temporarily arrested has now been released.
Hanover/Berlin - After the successful manhunt against former RAF terrorist Daniela Klette (65), the investigators are continuing their work.
“The evaluations are currently underway at the LKA and the Verden public prosecutor’s office,” said a spokeswoman for the Lower Saxony Ministry of the Interior on Wednesday.
According to the responsible Lower Saxony public prosecutor's office in Verden, the search was also continuing for former RAF members Ernst-Volker Staub (69) and Burkhard Garweg (55).
However, a man who was also temporarily arrested in Berlin is now at large again.
“There is no doubt that it is not one of the two criminals who are still on the run,” said the Lower Saxony State Criminal Police Office in Hanover on Wednesday.
The man was released from police action.
LKA President Friedo de Vries explained on Tuesday that the man was in the “desired age group”.
The Interior Ministry spokeswoman did not provide any information about the context in which he was arrested.
The Berlin police continued their operation on Wednesday morning in the apartment of Daniela Klette, who was arrested on Monday evening.
In the morning, three personnel carriers were initially parked in front of the house on Sebastianstrasse in Berlin-Kreuzberg, as a dpa reporter reported.
The entrance to the seven-story building was still cordoned off with tape.
Klette is in custody for several robberies.
According to the LKA, she lived in a Berlin apartment under a false identity.
According to a neighbor, Claudia was in charge of the operation.
According to the LKA, during the search the investigators found magazines from a weapon and cartridges, among other things.
A weapon has not yet been found.
According to an authority spokeswoman, an arrest warrant against Klette that was obtained years ago by the Federal Prosecutor's Office in Karlsruhe is still in force.
Klette is being investigated for causing an explosive explosion and attempted murder in crimes in the early 1990s.
Specifically, she is accused of having carried out an explosive attack on the Weiterstadt prison, which was under construction, in March 1993 together with the still wanted RAF terrorists Ernst-Volker Staub and Burkhard Garweg.
The explosion caused damage to the building amounting to around 123 million German marks.
Klette is also said to have attempted with other RAF members to carry out an explosive attack on a Deutsche Bank building in Eschborn in February 1990.
The explosive did not detonate because the ignition failed.
In addition, according to investigators' findings, Klette and RAF members fired at least 250 shots at the US embassy in Bad Godesberg in February 1991.
The arrest by target investigators was preceded by years of investigative work led by the Verden public prosecutor's office.
The prosecution accuses Klette, Garweg and Staub of attempted murder and a series of serious robberies between 1999 and 2016.
The crime scenes were in Lower Saxony and North Rhine-Westphalia.
The public prosecutor's office assumes that the attacks were not politically motivated.
Rather, the accused are said to have committed the crimes in order to get money for their underground life.
The Lower Saxony authorities initially did not comment on the question of which prison Klette was taken to.
A Justice Department spokeswoman cited security considerations.
She also did not want to comment on whether Klette was in solitary confinement.
She also has no information as to whether Klette should be brought to the Federal Prosecutor's Office in Karlsruhe.
The trio Klette, Staub and Garweg are assigned to the so-called third RAF generation.
The journalist and RAF expert Stefan Aust said about this on Tuesday evening in the ZDF “heute-journal” that the second generation tried to free the first from prison.
“When that didn't work, there was the third generation, and they did one thing and they simply committed murder.
They just shot people or set traps for them.”
Most recently, the Verden public prosecutor's office again appealed to the population on the ZDF program “Aktenzeichen XY ... unsolved”.
According to LKA President de Vries, the broadcast brought 250 new clues.
The arrest was not based on the search call in the program.
Several thousand tips have been processed in recent years.
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