Explosives alarm
Police clear RAF terrorist Klette’s home
February 28, 2024, 6:54 p.m
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Investigators capture the RAF terrorist Daniela Klette, who went into hiding, in Berlin. Even the day after the spectacular arrest, her rental apartment was searched. After finding cartridges and magazines from a weapon, officials now discover something “that is dangerous.” Everyone must then leave the house.
The apartment building in Berlin-Kreuzberg where the RAF terrorist Daniela Klette lived has been evacuated because of a possible danger. All residents had to leave their apartments in the afternoon, a reporter observed. The sidewalk in front of the house and a neighboring house were closed. A police crime scene investigator said: “Because we found something that is dangerous.” There was talk of an explosive-like object.
Fire departments, ambulances and other police cars pulled up to the house. The police forensic scientists also had to leave the house on Sebastianstrasse. After the evacuation, the residents stood on the other side of the street or had left the area. Some had pets with them. Several women said police did not give them a reason.
In the house, Klette was arrested by the police in her apartment on the 5th floor on Monday evening. According to the LKA, she lived there under a false identity. According to a neighbor, she had the first name Claudia. According to the LKA, during the search the investigators found magazines from a weapon and cartridges, among other things. A weapon has not yet been found.
Since then, the apartment has been further investigated. Numerous masked police officers in plain clothes kept coming and going. A larger car with the inscription “Criminal Technology” and a Berlin license plate had been standing in front of the house since Tuesday morning. “The evaluations are currently underway at the LKA and the Verden public prosecutor’s office,” said a spokeswoman for the Lower Saxony Ministry of the Interior.
Investigators are looking for more terrorists
Klette is now in custody for several robberies. There she is silent. According to the responsible Lower Saxony public prosecutor’s office in Verden, the search is still ongoing for the RAF members, 69-year-old Ernst-Volker Staub and 55-year-old Burkhard Garweg. The prosecution accuses Klette, Garweg and Staub of attempted murder and a series of serious robberies between 1999 and 2016.
A man who was temporarily arrested in Berlin after Klette was arrested has now been released. “There is no doubt that it is not one of the two criminals who are still on the run,” said the Lower Saxony State Criminal Police Office in Hanover. LKA President Friedo de Vries explained on Tuesday that the man was in the “sought age group”. The Interior Ministry spokeswoman did not provide any information about the context in which he was arrested.
At midday, the “Hannoversche Allgemeine” reported the arrest of a third person by investigators in Berlin. It is being checked whether it is Klette’s companion Garweg or Staub. However, there was no confirmation from the LKA in Hanover, the newspaper said.
The trio Klette, Staub and Garweg are assigned to the so-called third RAF generation. The journalist and RAF expert Stefan Aust said about this on Tuesday evening in the ZDF “heute-journal” that the second generation tried to free the first from prison. “When that didn’t work, there was the third generation, and they did one thing: they simply committed murder. They simply shot people or set traps for them.”