Wednesday November 27, 2024

Ex far-left RAF terrorist in custody in Germany

Published : 27 Feb 2024, 22:51

  DF News Desk
Police officers stand at the entrance to the district court. Photo: Sina Schuldt/dpa.

The detained former far-left terrorist from the Red Army Faction (RAF), Daniela Klette, faces six arrest warrants, investigators announced at a press conference in Hanover on Tuesday, reported dpa.

The 65-year-old is now in custody for several robbery offences that took places in the German states of Lower Saxony and North Rhine-Westphalia in 1999, 2006, 2015 and 2016, they said.

The authorities had been searching for the fugitive members of the RAF, also known as the Baader-Meinhof Group, for decades.

Klette was arrested in Berlin on Monday evening. She and her fellow members Burkhard Garweg and Ernst-Volker Staub are accused of attempted murder and a series of armed robberies between 1999 and 2016.