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Investigators find cartridges on RAF terrorist Klette
February 27, 2024, 3:24 p.m
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She has been a fugitive for 30 years. On Monday afternoon, investigators arrested the RAF terrorist Daniela Klette in an apartment in Berlin-Kreuzberg. Lower Saxony’s Interior Minister Behrens describes this as one of the greatest search successes in recent decades.
Former RAF terrorist Daniela Klette offered no resistance when she was arrested in Berlin. LKA President Friedo de Vries announced this in Hanover. According to the Hanover State Criminal Police Office, the 65-year-old lived in Berlin-Kreuzberg under a false identity. During the search, investigators reportedly found, among other things, two magazines from a weapon and cartridges. A weapon has not yet been found.
Klette is now in custody. A judge at the Verden District Court issued a total of six arrest warrants for various robberies to the 65-year-old, the police and public prosecutor’s office said. According to information, the crucial clue to the burdock, which has been underground for over 30 years, came from the population last November
According to Lower Saxony’s Interior Minister Daniela Behrens, the arrest of the former RAF terrorist is a “milestone” in German criminal history. She said this at a press conference in Hanover. The minister spoke of one of the greatest manhunt successes in Lower Saxony in recent decades and an important day for the security authorities throughout Germany. The arrest is a masterpiece of joint work by the Lower Saxony State Criminal Police Office (LKA) and the Verden public prosecutor’s office.
Behrens emphasized that it was an important signal in the fight against terrorism. Terrorism remains one of the greatest threats. “Terrorists can never feel safe,” said the SPD politician. “We don’t forget. We continue to investigate tirelessly.”
“Great investigative success”
Investigators arrested Klette in Berlin-Kreuzberg on Monday evening. The Verden public prosecutor’s office and the Lower Saxony LKA have been searching for the members of the Red Army Faction (RAF) for decades: 55-year-old Burkhard Garweg, 69-year-old Ernst-Volker Staub and 65-year-old Daniela Klette. They are assigned to the so-called third RAF generation. Representatives of this generation are said to have killed the then head of Deutsche Bank, Alfred Herrhausen, and the head of the Treuhand, Detlev Karsten Rohwedder. However, the perpetrator and motive are still unknown to this day.
Lower Saxony’s Justice Minister Kathrin Wahlmann described the arrest of former RAF terrorist Klette as a “great investigative success”. “If the strong suspicion against the accused is confirmed, her arrest is not only good news for the victims, but also a clear signal to serious criminals across the country: They cannot feel safe, even years after their crimes, but must always be with them expect consistent persecution by our authorities,” Wahlmann was quoted as saying in a statement from her ministry. She very much hopes “that this success will also advance the investigations against the other accused,” said Wahlmann.