As of: February 29, 2024, 9:24 a.m
By: Carmen Mörwald
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The RAF was considered the epitome of terror in Germany for decades.
In some of their murder cases it is still questionable who the actual perpetrator is.
Berlin – Starting in the early 1970s, the Red Army Faction (RAF) carried out more than two dozen attacks.
In total, the left-wing extremist organization is responsible for over 30 murders and more than 200 were injured.
Some of these cases remain unsolved to this day.
While former terrorist Daniela Klette was arrested on Monday (February 26), her accomplices Burkhard Garweg and Ernst-Volker Staub are still at large.
Who detonated the bombs, who pulled the trigger?
RAF murders still unsolved today
Shortly after Klette's arrest, another person was taken into custody.
It was assumed that it was cooking path or dust.
However, the Lower Saxony State Criminal Police Office (LKA) announced that this assumption was wrong.
“There is no doubt that it is not one of the two criminals who are still on the run,” said the LKA.
The man was released from police custody.
The search for the RAF terrorists continues.
Burdock, Staub and Garweg belong to the so-called third generation of the RAF.
Representatives of this generation are said to have killed the then head of Deutsche Bank, Alfred Herrhausen, the Siemens manager, Karl Heinz Beckurts, and the trust boss, Detlev Karsten Rohwedder.
Rohwedder was shot by a sniper, Herrhausen and Beckurts each died in bomb attacks.
Who exactly carried out these murders is unknown.
Murder of Schleyer and Buback: RAF knows no borders
It is also unclear who killed the former Federal Prosecutor General, Siegfried Buback, and employer president Hanns Martin Schleyer.
Both murders are attributed to the second generation of the RAF.
After Buback was murdered in his car with automatic weapons from a motorcycle, Brigitte Mohnhaupt, Christian Klar and Knut Folkerts were sentenced to life imprisonment.
Her guilt was later questioned because of new publications.
Participants in the second generation of the RAF “Kommando Siegfried Hausner” never revealed the identity of Schleyer’s murderer.
The former workers' president was kidnapped in order to free RAF prisoners from the founding group.
When the demands were not met, Palestinian terrorists took control of the Lufthansa plane “Landshut”.
The hostages were released, whereupon the RAF prisoners committed suicide.
After more than 30 years of manhunt, former RAF terrorist Daniela Klette was caught in Berlin.
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Among others, Stefan Wisniewski, Brigitte Mohnhaupt and Christian Klar were sentenced to life imprisonment for their involvement in the kidnapping of Schleyer.
An important but late realization: the revolver used to shoot the workers' president in 1977 was also the source of the fatal shots at Bonn's top diplomat Gerold von Braunmühl in October 1986.
Here too, it is unclear who is responsible for his death.
It could not be proven whether burdock, dust or Garweg had anything to do with these murders.
However, the authorities accuse them of attempted murder and a series of robberies.
These should have no political background.
The fugitive trio is said to have tried to finance their underground life with the raids.
As it turns out, Klette went into hiding as a math tutor before her arrest.
(cln/dpa)
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