Daniela Klette, 65, was arrested in Berlin after more than thirty years on the run. She is under investigation for attempted murder and various robberies and attempted thefts.
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The end of a run of more than thirty years. German justice announced on Tuesday February 27 the arrest of an alleged member of the Red Army Fraction group, responsible for several attacks in the country from 1971 to 1991. Daniela Klette, 65, “was arrested” Monday in Berlin, said Verden city prosecutor Koray Freudenberg, without giving further details at this stage.
Daniela Klette, with her alleged accomplices Ernst-Volker Staub and Burkhard Garweg, have been wanted since the 1990s for their supposed participation in the Red Army Faction, sometimes called in France the “Baader gang”, a group advocating armed struggle which killed around thirty people. They belong to the “third generation” of the organization, i.e. the successors of the group’s creators, most of whom were arrested in the 1970s.
Found thanks to his footprints
The trio is the subject of an investigation by the public prosecutor’s office in Verden, Lower Saxony, for attempted murder and various robberies and attempted thefts, between 1999 and 2016, which they are suspected of having committed mainly to ensure their lifestyle. According to information from Der Spiegel, investigators arrested Daniela Klette in an apartment in the Kreuzberg district, in the center of the capital, where they discovered ammunition. She offered no resistance. The suspect must now be presented to the Verden public prosecutor’s office.
Always according to Der Spiegel, the person concerned was identified by her fingerprints after using an Italian passport. The trio essentially tried to finance their life in hiding through robberies, some successful, others not. The first for which they were incriminated and which had earned them around 500,000 euros, dates back to 1999. Their names resurfaced for the last time in 2016, when the courts suspected them of having attacked two armored vans.