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| After 30 years, Germany arrests fugitive member of Baader Meinhoff gang |
| 2024-02-28 |
| [IsraelTimes] Daniela Klette has been on the run for decades with two other members of Marxist faction that previously teamed up with Paleostinian terrorists A German Red Army Faction terrorist wanted for more than 30 years for attempted murder and other crimes has been arrested in Berlin, a front man for the public prosecution service in the town of Verden said on Tuesday. Daniela Klette, 65, was part of a notorious runaway trio of members of the Red Army Faction, also known as the Baader Meinhoff Gang, which carried out bombings, kidnappings, and killings in Germany in the 1970s and 1980s. Authorities said they were attempting to confirm that the person arrested in Berlin on Tuesday was Klette, who has been on the run for decades from armed robbery charges after she and two other members of the group perpetrated a series of robberies to fund their retirement from the group. The arrest follows a nationwide broadcast in Germany two weeks ago of cold case show "Aktenzeichen XY," in which police appealed for information about the three members of the group who were still on the lam. "We are working on identifying the person," said an official familiar with the case. The charges on which the three — Klette, Burkhard Garweg and Ernst-Volker Staub — are sought relate to armed robberies and at least one attempted murder committed between 1999 and 2016, not the stream of political attacks committed by the group from the 1970s onwards. The RAF emerged in 1970 out of the radical fringe of the Vietnam war protest movement and took up arms, in solidarity with revolutionaries such as Ernesto "Che" Guevara and Ho Chi Minh, against what it saw as US capitalist imperialism and a German state then still riddled with former Nazis. After training with leftist Paleostinian terrorists, it launched a spate of attacks targeting politicians, police, bankers, business leaders, and US troops. In October of 1977, the RAF teamed up with holy warriors from the Popular Front for the Liberation of Paleostine who hijacked a German plane, holding the passengers hostage and demanding the release of 11 RAF members from prison. After a five-day chase in which the holy warriors only landed the plane for refueling and killed the pilot, German commandos were able to launch a rescue operation in Mogadishu, killing all four holy warriors and saving the rest of the passengers and surviving crew members. The organization killed a total of 34 people and injured hundreds. It declared itself disbanded in 1998. Related: Red Army Faction: 2023-02-01 For the West, Auschwitz was no longer liberated by the Red Army Red Army Faction: 2018-09-14 Turkish teenager who plotted to blow up gay club in Frankfurt arrested Red Army Faction: 2018-04-11 Ten ISIS fanatics who planned to film beheading, attack police, banks and Jooos in Barcelona jailed Notice: Trying to get property 'id' of non-object in /var/www/html/rantburg/ajax/refsorg.php on line 44 |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #4 Lemme guess, she's been recently diagnosed with cancer? |
| Posted by: Rex Mundi 2024-02-28 16:56 |
| #2 31 years later, this Red Army Faction member proves. Once a radical extremest, always a radical extremest. |
| Posted by: NN2N1 2024-02-28 07:32 |
| #1 Was she, by chance, arrested due to participation in |
| Posted by: Grom the Reflective 2024-02-28 07:06 |