New call from the authorities
Dust, burdock and Garweg: Search for dangerous RAF pensioners with “file number XY”
On “Aktenzeichen XY” a search call for three former RAF members is broadcast. Among other things, they are said to have been involved in the assassination attempt on bank manager Alfred Herrhausen in November 1989.
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The Red Army Faction is a topic on “Aktenzeichen XY” this Wednesday. There is a current manhunt for three former members of the now disbanded terrorist group.
The public prosecutor’s office in Verden near Hanover in Lower Saxony and the State Criminal Police Office addressed the public in a statement on Friday. The accused are Ernst-Volker Staub, Daniela Marie Luise Klette and Burkhard Garweg.
The accused have been living underground since the 1990s. The investigators assume that the group was in Germany between 1999 and 2016.
Mugshots of the former RAF trio: Garweg on the left, dust in the middle and Burdock on the right. The police point out that some of these pictures are very old.
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Twelve robbery crimes are attributed to the accused during this time. Among other things, they are said to have tried to rob a cash-in-transit truck in Stuhr near Bremen, as DNA evidence showed. One of the wanted people is said to have further contacts in Germany.
Third generation of the Red Army Faction: Search also for “file number XY”
The group is assigned to the so-called third generation of the RAF. The RAF generation is accused of, among other things, the murders of Deutsche Bank boss Alfred Herrhausen and Treuhand boss Detlev Karsten Rohwedder. The RAF disbanded in 1998.
The LKA emphasizes in its statement that the perpetrators are also being sought for murder, in which footage from surveillance cameras is also published. You can also see photos on the site that show the people you are looking for. However, these recordings are not current and are years or even decades old and are sometimes quite blurry.
The suspected RAF terrorists are now at the proverbial retirement age or close to it: Staub is said to be 70 this year, Garweg 55 and Klette 66. However, the three are not without danger: the robbery crimes with which they allegedly recently appeared were sometimes carried out with considerable violence.
A total reward of 150,000 euros is being offered for information that leads to a final conviction of the perpetrators, writes the LKA and points out the possibility of contacting the police confidentially and anonymously.
Further approaches have emerged from investigations in recent months, the NDR quoted the police and public prosecutor’s office as saying. This is the reason to go public again. The investigators are hoping for clues from the criminals’ personal environment, it goes on to say. However, caution is advised as those wanted are likely to be armed. The wanted people now commit crimes to earn a living and no longer for political motivation, it said.
Sources: dpa, LKA Lower Saxony,“Bild” newspaper, NDR“File number XY“
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