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Police officers with special equipment leave a high-rise building in Berlin-Friedrichshain.
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The police are not letting up in the search for two former RAF terrorists.
There was another police operation in Berlin, but no one was arrested.
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Berlin/Hannover - The police remain on the trail of the two former RAF terrorists suspected in Berlin.
On Tuesday night, a special police task force searched an apartment in a Berlin student dormitory in search of the ex-RAF terrorists Ernst-Volker Staub (69) and Burkhard Garweg (55).
Photos show how heavily armed police officers wearing helmets entered the dormitory on the street of the Paris Commune.
There was evidence of an object and emergency services searched the apartment, said a spokeswoman for the Lower Saxony State Criminal Police Office.
Two people were found there, whose identities the officers determined.
But no one was arrested.
The officials also continued the investigation of an apartment on Grünberger Strasse, which was searched on Sunday evening, the spokeswoman said.
The State Criminal Police Office initially did not provide any further details.
On Monday, investigators searched an apartment on Corinthstrasse in Berlin.
According to the State Criminal Police Office, they found one person, but none of the people they were looking for were there.
In the afternoon there was another operation on Autobahn 5 south of Darmstadt, including special forces.
The identity of two people was also established there, and there were no arrests, as the spokeswoman said.
A trailer site in Friedrichshain was searched on Sunday and an apartment in the evening.
There was no arrest either.
The search is primarily focused on the 55-year-old Garweg: the investigators have taken his home away from him, he is most likely traveling without logistics - and "really on the run", which could be incriminating, a spokesman for the Verden public prosecutor's office said.
His biggest concern is therefore a short-circuit act.
He appealed to Garweg to turn himself in to avoid possible escalation.
The 55-year-old is said to have temporarily lived in a trailer on the site in Berlin-Friedrichshain.
The trailer was removed for further investigations.
This means that Garweg's environment is gone and the pressure on him is increasing, said the spokesman for the public prosecutor's office.
Former RAF terrorist Daniela Klette was arrested in Berlin on February 26th.
The 65-year-old as well as Garweg and Staub (69) went into hiding over 30 years ago.
All three belonged to the so-called third generation of the former left-wing extremist terrorist organization Red Army Faction.
This was the epitome of terror and murder in Germany for decades.
In 1998 it declared itself dissolved.
During the active terror period of the third generation, the then Deutsche Bank boss Alfred Herrhausen (1989) and Treuhand boss Detlev Karsten Rohwedder (1991) were murdered.
There are arrest warrants against Klette, Staub and Garweg on suspicion of involvement in terrorist attacks.
They were or are also wanted for several robberies.
Between 1999 and 2016 they are said to have robbed money transporters and supermarkets in Lower Saxony and North Rhine-Westphalia.
They are also accused of attempted murder because there was a shooting.
In view of the intensive manhunt, members of the left-wing extremist scene want to defend themselves with targeted references to LKA units.
On the Indymedia website, anonymous authors published photos of civilian police vans, license plates of special operations teams from Berlin and Lower Saxony and locations of operational preparations.
The website says they want to “counter the manhunt” and show solidarity with the former RAF members who went into hiding.
The authors wrote that in Berlin one had “the feeling of being transported back to the 1970s” - with police presence, roadblocks and raids.
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