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Former RAF terrorist Daniela Klette was arrested in Berlin.
Their crimes left Germany in turmoil for a long time.
Berlin - Former RAF terrorist Daniela Klette was arrested in Berlin on Monday (February 26), almost ten years after her last suspected crimes.
The 65-year-old woman managed to hide in Germany for years, working, among other things, as a math tutor.
Now she has to face the allegations from her past.
The police accuse Daniela Klette and two other former RAF terrorists, Ernst-Volker Staub and Burkhard Garweg, of attempted murder and a series of serious robberies between 1999 and 2016. The trio was always classified as “highly dangerous” by the Lower Saxony State Criminal Police Office due to their reckless approach.
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The police assume that their joint actions were not politically motivated, but rather served the purpose of financing their underground life.
Burdock is also linked to two political attacks.
On February 25, 1990, Daniela Klette is said to have been involved in the planning of an explosive attack on the Deutsche Bank's Eschborn Technical Center, even before she was linked to her later accomplices.
The act failed because the car bomb did not explode.
Hair from Burdock is later found in a VW Golf, in which the explosives were also placed.
In 1993, concrete DNA material from the RAF terrorist was discovered in an attack on a prison in Weiterstadt (Hesse).
A “Katharina Hammerschmidt commando” from the RAF deposited around 200 kilograms of explosives in a vehicle, as was later
reported by
Spiegel .
This time the deed was successful.
A large part of the newly built 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!”
Attempted murder, numerous robberies: Former RAF terrorist Daniela Klette remained undetected for a long time
For six years there seemed to be peace around Daniela Klette.
It was not until 1999 that the first serious robbery of a cash-in-transit vehicle occurred in Duisburg-Rheinhausen (North Rhine-Westphalia).
Equipped with a bazooka, three people stole more than one million German marks (around 510,000 euros).
The police discovered balaclavas and a getaway vehicle in which Klette's DNA as well as that of her accomplices Staub and Garweg were again found.
After numerous robberies on various shopping markets, the trio struck twice in 2015 and planned to rob cash transports again, for the first time in June.
However, their efforts were unsuccessful.
After the failed attack 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 found traces of DNA from the trio.
Despite intensive searches, the RAF terrorists managed to remain underground and not be discovered.
In May 2016, they decided again to rob a cash-in-transit truck in Lower Saxony, this time in Cremlingen.
Equipped with a bazooka and an assault rifle, the trio stole around 600,000 euros and then disappeared without a trace.
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Robberies, political attacks: the former RAF terrorist is linked to several crimes.
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After Daniela Klette's arrest: accomplices Staub and Garweg are still on the run
For the past ten years there has been silence surrounding the former RAF terrorists.
Police never ruled out the possibility that the robberies could resume.
While Daniela Klette was finally arrested in an apartment in the Kreuzberg district of Berlin, her two suspected accomplices Ernst-Volker Staub and Burkhad Garweg are still on the run.
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, was, together with Ernst-Volker Staub and Burkhard Garweg, part of the third generation of the left-wing extremist terrorist organization “Red Army Faction” (RAF).
Members of this generation were accused of numerous homicides, including the then head of Deutsche Bank, Alfred Herrhausen, and the trust boss Detlev Karsten Rohwedder.
However, 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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