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An armored police vehicle leaves the courtyard of the district court in Verden.
Investigators from the LKA Lower Saxony allegedly arrested former RAF terrorist Daniela Klette on Monday afternoon.
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The former RAF terrorist Daniela Klette is in custody.
The investigators also report a second arrest - is it about one of the other ex-RAF terrorists who are also wanted?
Hanover/Berlin - After the arrest of former RAF terrorist Daniela Klette (65), investigators are continuing the search for former RAF members Ernst-Volker Staub (69) and Burkhard Garweg (55).
One thing is certain: “We will continue to search,” said the President of the Lower Saxony State Criminal Police Office (LKA), Friedo de Vries.
Daniela Klette, like Burkhard Garweg and Ernst-Volker Staub, is assigned to the so-called third RAF generation.
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After the 65-year-old was arrested, another person was arrested in Berlin - investigators were expected to provide information about this man later today.
The person arrested was a man in the “sought age group,” de Vries said.
The man's identity is still being clarified.
The head of the LKA said in Hanover that it was not certain whether his identification document was genuine.
In custody for several robberies
Klette was caught in Berlin on Monday evening.
When she was arrested, she offered no resistance, de Vries said.
The 65-year-old is in custody for several robberies.
According to the LKA, Klette, who was wanted as a terrorist, lived in a Berlin apartment under a false identity - according to a neighbor, under the first name Claudia.
During the search, investigators reportedly found, among other things, magazines from a weapon and cartridges.
A weapon has not yet been found.
Investigators were in Klette's apartment that evening, and police officers carried bags out of the house, as a dpa reporter reported.
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 - the accused are said to have committed the crimes in order to get money for their underground life.
The trio Klette, Staub and Garweg are assigned to the so-called third RAF generation.
“They just shot people”
About the different generations of the terrorist group, journalist and RAF expert Stefan Aust said 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.”
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According to dpa information, Klette is also 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 the 1993 anti-terror operation 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.
Klette has not yet commented
When she was brought before the responsible investigating judge at the Verden District Court, Klette did not comment on the matter, said a spokeswoman for the Lower Saxony Ministry of Justice.
It remains to be seen whether she will get involved over the next few days and weeks.
The son of Federal Prosecutor General Siegfried Buback, who was murdered by the RAF in 1977, Michael Buback, was “not overly optimistic” after Klette's arrest that further RAF crimes could now be solved.
“Why should Ms. Klette behave differently than other RAF members who neither burden themselves nor others?” he told the Germany editorial network (Wednesday).
250 clues after shipment “file number XY”
Most recently, the Verden public prosecutor's office again appealed to the population on the ZDF program “Aktenzeichen XY... unsolved”.
The program brought around 250 new tips - but several thousand tips had been processed in the past nine years, said de Vries.
Klette's arrest was not based on the search call in the program.
The then Deutsche Bank boss Alfred Herrhausen died in an explosive attack in November 1989.
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Federal Interior Minister Nancy Faeser (SPD) said of Klette's arrest: “The constitutional state has shown its persistence and staying power.
Nobody should feel safe underground.” dpa