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52 tips received about wanted ex-RAF terrorists
The police are using this poster to search for the two former RAF members Ernst-Volker Staub (l) and Burkhard Garweg. photo
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From 1999 to 2016, three former members of the Red Army Faction are said to have carried out armed robberies of cash transport and supermarkets. Will a manhunt using television now bring a breakthrough?
After a new search call with reference to the ZDF program “File number
The accused Ernst-Volker Staub, Daniela Marie Luise Klette and Burkhard Garweg are accused of, among other things, attempted murder and a series of serious robberies. The three former RAF terrorists wanted went into hiding in the 1990s. DNA evidence led investigators to the conclusion that the three could be responsible for robberies of cash transport and supermarkets between 1999 and 2016.
Crime scenes included Wolfsburg, Cremlingen and Stuhr in Lower Saxony as well as Bochum-Wattenscheid and Essen in North Rhine-Westphalia. The Verden public prosecutor’s office assumes that the robberies were not politically motivated, but that the three used them to finance their living underground, which is why further crimes are possible. In the ZDF program “Aktenzeichen XY … unsolved” this Wednesday, the serious consequences of the crimes for the victims will also be discussed.
Staub, Garweg and Burdock are counted as part of the so-called third generation of the left-wing extremist RAF. The terrorist organization disbanded in 1998. The third RAF generation is accused of, among other things, the murders of Deutsche Bank boss Alfred Herrhausen in 1989 and Treuhand boss Detlev Karsten Rohwedder in 1991.
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