German justice announced on Tuesday February 27 the arrest in Berlin of Daniela Klette, 65, an alleged member of the far-left German organization Red Army Faction (FAR), wanted for decades in particular for attempted murder and for several robberies, without providing further details at this stage.
A far-left terrorist group, the Red Army Faction appeared in Germany in the early 1970s. Until its self-dissolution in 1998, it was accused of having killed up to fifty people. Since then, known members of the police have died or are trying to lead new lives after serving prison sentences.
In January 2016, justice revealed that traces of DNA from three members of the FAR, including Daniela Klette, had been found on a car used in June 2015 for the failed attack on an armored van, near Bremen.
Member of “the third generation of the FAR”
She is suspected of being part of what experts call “the third generation of the FAR”, the most mysterious because the best organized. She is accused of having committed, between 1984 and 1993, ten crimes, three attempted crimes and of having injured twenty-nine people. His traces were notably found at the scene of the attack committed against the Darmstadt prison (Hesse), an attack which caused no casualties.
Daniela Klette is also wanted for an attempted attack committed in February 1990 against a Deutsche Bank building in Eschborn (Hesse) using a car in which there were 45 kilos of explosives, but the ignition had failed. She is also suspected of having participated in February 1991 in the heavy shooting against the United States embassy in Bonn.