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| Berlin probes 30-year-old terrorist murder |
| 2007-04-26 |
| A terror case has been revived in Germany, with the top prosecutor re-launching an investigation into a decades-old murder. Monika Harms, Germany's top federal prosecutor, said Wednesday in Karlsruhe her office will investigate former Red Army Faction terrorist Stefan Wisniewski in connection with the 1977 murder of one of her predecessors in office, Siegfried Buback. The investigation was launched only a few days after a report in German news magazine Der Spiegel said Wisniewski was a key person in the killing that shocked Germany in April 1977. At the time, two individuals on a motorcycle approached Buback's limousine, with one man pumping at least 15 bullets into the car, killing Buback, his driver and a police officer. Even though four RAF members -- Christian Klar, Knut Folkerts, Guenter Sonnenberg and Brigitte Mohnhaupt -- were formally charged and prosecuted in connection with the Buback murder, the identity of the two individuals on the motorbike and who actually fired the shots were never resolved. In an interview with Der Spiegel, another former RAF terrorist, Peter-Juergen Boock, said the man who fired the shots must have been Wisniewski -- who was convicted in connection with other murder cases -- as he had undergone military training with the semi-automatic weapon used at the crime scene. Harms' office will question Boock within the next days, she said. The RAF was an anti-capitalist terrorist group that killed 34 people in a bloody campaign aimed at destabilizing the German state. Sponsored, supported, armed and trained by eastern European communist governments. |
| Posted by:Anonymoose |
| #2 Such diligent investigation of a decades old cold case while they let 9-11 conspirators walk. How comforting. |
| Posted by: Zenster 2007-04-26 15:31 |
| #1 Should read: Berlin probes 30 year old Freedom Fighters Offensive. There, that's more European. |
| Posted by: bigjim-ky 2007-04-26 08:09 |