Police search apartment
Another raid in the search for RAF terrorists in Berlin
March 3, 2024, 8:58 p.m
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In the morning, the police searched a former commercial property in Berlin-Friedrichshain. The investigators are certain that the area served as a hiding place for the RAF terrorist Burkhard Garweg. Now the investigators are striking an apartment in the same area.
In the search for two former RAF terrorists, the police searched another apartment in Berlin. The measure in the evening in the Friedrichshain district is connected to the search for Ernst-Volker Staub and Burkhard Garweg, said a spokeswoman for the leading Lower Saxony State Criminal Police Office.
According to “Bild” information, the raid took place in a building on Grünberger Strasse on the corner of Simon-Dach-Strasse. It is still unclear whether there have been any arrests. Accordingly, a special operations team with several vehicles is in action. Masked plainclothes police are standing on the street, as a dpa reporter observed. Several dozen onlookers gathered to watch the proceedings.
Only around two kilometers away, the police had already searched parts of a left-wing alternative trailer site during the RAF search that morning. A construction trailer container – according to the Lower Saxony LKA, Garweg’s suspected accommodation – was transported away and is to be examined for forensic purposes.
Just a few days ago, former RAF terrorist Daniela Klette was also arrested in Berlin. Dust and cooking paths had disappeared like burdock over 30 years ago. All three belonged to the third generation of the left-wing extremist terrorist organization Red Army Faction.
The RAF was the epitome of terror and murder in Germany for decades. In 1998 it declared itself dissolved. There are arrest warrants against Klette, Staub and Garweg on suspicion of involvement in terrorist attacks. They were or are also wanted for several robberies. Between 1999 and 2016 they are said to have robbed money transporters and supermarkets in Lower Saxony and North Rhine-Westphalia. They are also accused of attempted murder because there was a shooting.