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The former RAF terrorist Daniela Klette was arrested in Berlin.
The crimes she was accused of kept Germany in suspense for a long time.
Berlin - Almost ten years after her last alleged acts, former RAF terrorist Daniela Klette was arrested in Berlin on Monday (February 26).
For decades, the now 65-year-old managed to hide in Germany as a math tutor, among other things.
Now she has to face the numerous allegations from her past.
The police accuse Daniela Klette and two other former RAF terrorists, Ernst-Volker Staub and Burkhad Garweg, of attempted murder and a series of serious robberies between 1999 and 2016.
Because of their unscrupulous actions, the trio was always considered “highly dangerous” by the Lower Saxony State Criminal Police Office.
The police assume that their joint actions were not politically motivated, but rather to finance their underground life.
Meanwhile, Burdock is also associated with two political attacks:
Daniela Kette arrested: The most famous cases of the former RAF terrorist
It is February 25, 1990. Daniela Klette is not yet associated with her future accomplice, but is probably involved in the planning to carry out an explosive attack on the Deutsche Bank's Eschborn Technical Center.
The crime goes wrong because the car bomb doesn't go off.
The police later found hair from Burdock in a VW Golf, in which the explosives were also planted.
Two undated police mugshots show suspected RAF terrorist Daniela Klette.
© Collage: AFP PHOTO / Lower Saxony State Criminal Police Office (left) // Police/dpa (right)
Specific DNA material from the RAF terrorist is also said to have been found in an attack on a prison in Weiterstadt (Hesse).
In 1993, a “Katharina Hammerschmidt commando” from the RAF deposited around 200 kilograms of explosives in a vehicle, as
Spiegel
later reported.
This time the deed worked.
A large part of the newly completed correctional facility in the southern Hesse city was damaged.
The terrorist group left a letter of confession in a vehicle: “Freedom for all political prisoners!
For a society without prisons!”
For the next six years, things seemed to be quiet around Daniela Klette.
In 1999, the first serious robbery took place on a cash-in-transit truck in Duisburg-Rheinhausen (North Rhine-Westphalia).
Three people stole more than one million German marks (around 510,000 euros) with a bazooka.
The police say they found balaclavas and a getaway vehicle in which Klette's DNA was again found, as was that of her accomplices Staub and Garweg.
Former RAF terrorist Daniela Klette was wanted on suspicion of attempted murder
After numerous robberies on various shopping markets, the trio struck twice in 2015 and wanted to rob cash transports again, for the first time in June.
In vain.
After the failed attempt in Groß Mackenstedt, the police not only issued an arrest warrant for attempted aggravated robbery, but also on suspicion of attempted murder.
In December there was a second attempt in Wolfsburg, which also failed.
In both cases, the police are said to have found DNA traces from the trio.
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Police officers stand at the entrance to an apartment building in the Kreuzberg district.
© Paul Zinken/dpa
Despite manhunts, the RAF terrorists managed to live underground and not attract attention.
In May 2016, they finally dared to attack a cash transport in Lower Saxony again, this time in Cremlingen.
Armed with a bazooka and an assault rifle, the trio stole around 600,000 euros and then went into hiding.
After the arrest of Daniela Klette: The search for Staub and Garweg continues
In the last ten years things had become quiet about the former RAF terrorists.
The police never ruled out that the robberies could start again.
While Daniela Klette was finally arrested on Monday in an apartment in the Kreuzberg district of Berlin, the police are still looking for her two suspected accomplices, Ernst-Volker Staub and Burkhad Garweg.
The police launched a new search call on February 14th in the program “Aktenzeichen XY...unsolved” and published surveillance footage of the two men.
Daniela Marie Luise Klette, her full name, belonged, together with Ernst-Volker Staub and Burkhad Garweg, to the third generation of the left-wing extremist terrorist organization “Red Army Faction” (RAF).
Members of the third RAF generation were accused of numerous homicides.
The victims included the then head of Deutsche Bank, Alfred Herrhausen, and the trust boss Detlev Karsten Rohwedder.
According to police information, Klette was not believed to have been involved in the murders.
In 1998 the RAF officially disbanded.
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