As of: February 28, 2024, 5:33 p.m
By: Michel Guddat
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After more than 30 years on the run, ex-RAF member Daniela Klette was arrested by the police in Berlin.
There is still no trace of her two accomplices.
Berlin – She spent decades in secret, took on an alternative identity, and taught math tutoring.
However, on Monday (February 26th), Daniela Klette, a former member of the RAF, was arrested by the police in her apartment in Berlin-Kreuzberg and subsequently arrested.
She is said to have committed various crimes primarily with the two wanted accomplices, Ernst-Volker Staub (69) and Burkhard Garweg (55).
Staub and Garweg are still on the run – the search for the ex-RAF members is in full swing
Immediately after the 65-year-old's arrest, it was announced that a male person had also been taken into custody in Berlin.
However, it emerged on Wednesday that he was not one of the RAF terrorists wanted.
The man was then released.
As early as mid-February, eyewitnesses reported to the police a man at Wuppertal Central Station who they thought was dust.
However, this suspicion was not confirmed either.
“Highly dangerous” trio has been on “Europe’s Most Wanted List” since 2020
The search for dust and cooking paths therefore continues intensively.
Friedo de Vries, head of the Lower Saxony LKA, explained this at a press conference.
The search also extends abroad.
According to the police, it is not certain whether the two accomplices are actually still in Germany.
They have also been listed on the “Europes Most Wanted List” since 2020.
It is also suspected that Staub and Garweg are armed, according to the Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA).
The police are currently searching intensively for the former RAF terrorists Burkhard Garweg (r) and Ernst-Volker Staub (l).
© Public Prosecutor’s Office Verden/dpa
The RAF trio was classified as “highly dangerous” by the Lower Saxony State Criminal Police Office due to their unscrupulous actions.
According to police, Klette, Staub and Garweg are accused of attempted murder and a series of aggravated robberies between 1999 and 2016.
Third generation of the RAF causes terror in the country with robberies and murders
An example of their actions is an explosive attack on the Weiterstadt prison, which was under construction, which was carried out around March 1993.
The DNA of all three RAF members was first discovered by investigators during a joint raid on a cash-in-transit truck in Duisburg in 1999.
This incident was followed by several robberies on shopping markets.
In 2016, they robbed a cash-in-transit truck again with a bazooka and an assault rifle and stole around 600,000 euros.
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Burdock, Staub and Garweg belong to the so-called third generation of the RAF.
The journalist and RAF expert Stefan Aust commented on this on Tuesday evening in the
ZDF
“heute-journal” and explained 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.”
The two RAF terrorists and the female terrorist were never caught.
They lived underground for decades - and according to the police, they also needed money to do so.
Hot lead in Hesse and Hamburg – ZDF broadcast brings around 250 clues
In 2023, investigators in Hesse and Hamburg finally came across a promising lead.
When they searched apartments and a hotel room, they found letters from Garweg that showed that the now 55-year-old maintained “intensive contact” with his family.
Failed robbery of a money messenger in Hildesheim in 2016: Images from a surveillance camera are said to show the former RAF terrorists Burkhard Garweg (r.) and Ernst-Volker Staub.
© Lower Saxony State Criminal Police Office/dpa
On February 14th,
a new police search call was launched on the
ZDF program “Aktenzeichen
According to the President of the LKA, de Vries, around 250 new tips were received through the broadcast.
However, the arrest was not based on the manhunt call in the broadcast.
Several thousand tips have been processed in recent years.
The investigators now hope that after the first successful search for the RAF, they can also convict Staub and Garweg.
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