BKA President
Ex-terrorist Klette had the opportunity to warn someone
Former RAF terrorist Daniela Klette is led to a helicopter by police officers after a detention hearing at the Federal Court of Justice. photo
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The BKA president confirms that Daniela Klette still had time to issue a warning before her arrest. In an interview he explains why he sees no mistake on the part of the investigators.
BKA President Holger Münch sees no error on the part of the investigators because the former RAF terrorist Daniela Klette was able to warn an accomplice before her arrest. “I don’t want to call this a mistake,” said the president Federal Criminal Police Office on Sunday in the ARD program “Report from Berlin”. These are simply things you can’t rule out.”
Several media outlets reported last week that Klette had warned her former accomplice Burkhard Garweg from her apartment before her arrest in Berlin. Münch now confirmed that she still had the opportunity to issue a warning when accessed on February 26th.
Münch: “You’re always smarter afterwards”
It was one of over a thousand routine checks, said the President of the Federal Criminal Police Office. “You don’t just walk through the door with the ramp, but the point was to determine: Is this person, to whom a trace pointed, possibly Mrs. Klette or not?”
“It happened that you knocked on the door and then identified yourself and it took a moment until Ms. Klette opened the door.” She said she would open the door straight away. And during this period, Klette was actually able to warn someone. “Conversely, if it hadn’t been Ms. Burdock and someone had rammed the door and knocked someone down, then we would have talked about a mistake. That means you’re always smarter afterwards.”
The situation was described somewhat differently in the media reports. It said that the police had allowed Klette to use the toilet in her apartment and that she had then sent a message to Garweg.
Quick search success? – “I dare to doubt”
So-called target investigators from the Lower Saxony State Criminal Police Office were responsible for the operation. Klette is now in custody. Garweg is being searched for using current photos. He lived in a trailer in Berlin, but managed to escape before the police showed up.
Münch doesn’t expect quick success in the search for him. It is hoped that the traces from the search measures and possible new clues will ultimately lead to a successful search. “I currently doubt whether this will take place in the short term. But we have a significantly better situation than before Ms. Klette was attacked.”
Klette, Garweg and Ernst-Volker Staub, who was also wanted, went into hiding more than 30 years ago. All three belonged to the so-called third generation of the left-wing extremist terrorist organization Red Army Faction (RAF), which carried out numerous attacks and killed people until 1991.