New call from the authorities
Dust, burdock and garbage: police search for RAF pensioners with pixelated photos
The former members of the Red Army Faction (RAF) are accused of, among other things, the assassination attempt on bank manager Alfred Herrhausen in November 1989.
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The Red Army Faction disbanded many years ago, but some of its members are still wanted. A new search for three former RAF terrorists has now been published.
The Red Army Faction (RAF) still concerns the German investigative authorities. In Lower Saxony they are again asking the population for information about three former members of the left-wing terrorist group.
The Verden public prosecutor’s office 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.
Those wanted are said to 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 should follow up on contacts entertain Germany.
Third generation of the Red Army Faction
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 photos are also published that are supposed to show the wanted people. However, the recordings are not current and are years or even decades old and 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.
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. However, caution is advised as those wanted are likely to be armed.
Sources: dpa, LKA Lower Saxony,“Bild” newspaper