As of: March 2nd, 2024 12:39 p.m
The weapons found by the suspected former RAF terrorist Daniela Klette are being examined in a laboratory. The Federal Criminal Police Office is now asking for help in the search for Garweg and Staub.
After Daniela Klette’s arrest, the weapons found in her apartment will be examined for fingerprints and DNA traces, said a spokesman for the Verden public prosecutor’s office. However, the evaluation is ongoing. “We have secured extensive material,” said the spokesman. It is currently unclear whether a new robbery was planned by the former suspected RAF terrorists.
“Heavy weapons of war” discovered
Emergency services had searched Daniela Klette’s apartment on the fifth floor of an apartment building in Berlin-Kreuzberg until early Thursday morning. Investigators had the 65-year-old there on Monday arrested. On Thursday afternoon, a spokesman for the Verden public prosecutor’s office said that “heavy war weapons” had been found in the apartment. These are a rocket-propelled grenade and rapid-fire rifles. In addition, several dangerous items such as ammunition from firearms, a submachine gun, a so-called Kalashnikov and a handgun were discovered, said the Lower Saxony State Criminal Police Office (LKA).
LKA suspects accomplices in Berlin
According to its own information, the LKA assumes that dust and Garweg are also in Berlin. Due to the weapons found in Klette’s apartment, the authorities suspect that the previously unknown apartments of the two alleged accomplices could also pose a “potential threat”. Together with the Verden public prosecutor’s office, the LKA Lower Saxony wants to sensitize the population about these dangers.
BKA asks for help
On Friday, the Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA) asked the public for help in finding Klette’s two suspected accomplices. “The investigative authorities are also specifically addressing the families of the accused, their circle of friends and former RAF supporters,” the BKA said on theWanted page with. Information could also be submitted confidentially. The BKA also warned against getting too close to the people they were looking for: “They could be armed.” A reward of at least 150,000 euros has been offered for information that leads to the arrest of the accused. According to media reports, another person was arrested in Berlin on Wednesday in connection with the search for the ex-RAF trio. But this is not about Ernst-Volker Staub or Burkhard Garweg, reports “Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung” (HAZ).
Suspected ex-RAF terrorist Daniela Klette remains silent
Klette has been in custody since Tuesday. In Verden she was brought before a judge. Klette did not comment on the matter, said a spokeswoman for the Lower Saxony Ministry of Justice. It remains to be seen whether she will accept this over the coming days and weeks. For security reasons, the authorities did not disclose where exactly Burdock was housed.
Lived in Berlin under a false identity
According to neighbors, the 65-year-old is said to have lived in Berlin for 20 years under the name Claudia. In order to earn money, she is said to have given private tutoring in mathematics. According to the LKA Lower Saxony, when he was arrested on Monday, Klette was alone in the apartment and did not offer any resistance. The justice system in Verden is investigating Klette and her alleged accomplices Garweg and Staub, among other things, for serious robberies with which they are said to have financed their underground life. There is also an arrest warrant against Klette from the Federal Prosecutor’s Office in Karlsruhe: for causing an explosive explosion and attempted murder in crimes in the early 1990s.
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Podcast “Legion” already had evidence of burdock in December
The podcast “Legion” from NDR and rbb had already come across a woman in dance groups in Berlin in December 2023 while searching for Daniela Klette. When asked, it turned out that the woman had last been seen there in 2019. However, the podcasters were unable to clarify with certainty whether the photos they found were actually Daniela Klette. The BKA and LKA could also have come across the images – either through their own research or the podcast. It is not yet known whether they led to Klette’s discovery. According to the LKA, the decisive tip that led to Klette’s arrest came from the public in November 2023.
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