The German authorities indicated on Thursday that they suspected the presence in Berlin of the two accomplices deemed dangerous of Daniela Klette, an alleged member of the former Red Army Faction (RAF) arrested Monday in Berlin after 30 years on the run.
The two men, Burkhard Garweg and Ernst-Volker Staub,
“could be in Berlin”
and represent
“a potential danger for the population”
, announced in a press release the judicial police of Lower Saxony (north) in charge of the case.
She said she had
“intensified”
her searches in the capital and its surrounding areas.
Since the arrest on Monday of Daniela Klette, 65, an alleged former member of the violent far-left group, searches carried out at her Berlin home and in the surrounding area have revealed several
“weapons of war and explosives”
which necessitated the temporary evacuation of residents on Wednesday.
The police seized various ammunition, firearms, including a Kalashnikov, a submachine gun and a handgun, as well as a bazooka grenade, according to the press release.
She lived under a false name
Daniela Klette and her two alleged RAF accomplices have been wanted since the 1990s, on the one hand for their supposed participation in the group, responsible for the deaths of around thirty people in three decades, and on the other hand for robberies from the end of the 1990s. The robberies, which continued according to investigators until recent times, aimed to ensure the lifestyle of the trio on the run.
Details of the underground life led by Daniela Klette have emerged in German media.
She lived under a false name, Claudia Ivone, with an Italian passport but, surprisingly, made no attempt to hide her face, despite multiple search notices from the police.
According to German media, she had a Facebook account since 2011 with several photos of them, including a recent one showing her smiling.
The account is no longer accessible.
She had also lived for around twenty years in her apartment in the Berlin district of Kreuzberg, on the 5th floor, with a partner and a dog.
And, according to the media, she loved Capoeira, this mixture of combat sport and Afro-Brazilian dance, and only traveled by bike.
Arrested on Monday without resistance, she has so far remained silent in the face of investigators.