Hundreds of people gathered in Berlin on Saturday evening: They expressed their solidarity with the arrested ex-RAF terrorist Klette. Interior Minister Faeser sharply criticized the demonstration.
Federal Interior Minister Nancy Faeser has condemned the demonstration in solidarity with ex-RAF members in hiding or imprisoned in Berlin. “The RAF brutally murdered 34 people. There is nothing, nothing at all, to glorify,” the SPD politician told the Editorial Network Germany (RND).
She wanted those who expressed solidarity with terrorists in hiding to “think for just a second what this means for the survivors of the many people who were killed by the RAF.” Faeser went on to say that the weapons seized in Berlin show that the current police measures pose considerable risks.
She thanked the investigators for using maximum pressure against the other RAF terrorists who were still wanted. “No one should feel safe underground.” It is also important to examine carefully which supporters made it possible for the RAF terrorists to go into hiding for so long and are still making it possible today. “The left-wing extremist scene remains very much in the focus of the security authorities.”
Hundreds for Burdock’s release
In Berlin on Saturday evening, around 600 people took part in a solidarity demonstration for former members of the RAF. They gathered in the Kreuzberg district in the late afternoon and marched, among other places, through Sebastianstrasse, where the former RAF terrorist Daniela Klette had lived under an assumed name before her arrest at the end of February.
Police officers accompanied the demonstrators from the left-wing scene, who regularly chanted something like “We are not all – the prisoners are missing” and carried banners with slogans such as “Freedom for Daniela – the system is terrorist” or “Where are the raids against the right?” .
Like the police rbb announced that some demonstrators wore masks and pyrotechnics were also ignited. Investigations have been initiated. Otherwise it remained largely quiet. Around 450 police officers were on duty. The event manager then ended the elevator early at Lausitzer Platz. The police do not know the reason for this, said the spokesman.
Extremism researcher Klaus Schroeder from the Free University of Berlin said this rbb on Saturday, the hard core of violent left-wing extremists was behind the demonstration.
Klette is said to have been involved in attacks
Klette, now 65, was arrested by civil investigators last week in her apartment in Kreuzberg after more than 30 years in the underground. She is now in custody in Lower Saxony. She is being investigated for involvement in attacks by the Red Army Faction (RAF). In addition, Klette and her fugitive alleged accomplices Burkhard Garweg and Ernst-Volker Staub are accused of armed robberies that they are said to have committed between 1999 and 2016 in order to finance their underground life.