SEK operation: Police search objects in Berlin during RAF search

As of: March 3, 2024 9:26 a.m

After the arrest of former RAF terrorist Daniela Klette, the police are looking for her two fugitive accomplices: Ernst-Volker Staub and Burkhard Garweg. A special operations team is currently searching objects in Berlin. Two men were arrested.

Officers from the Berlin and Lower Saxony police have been carrying out an operation in Berlin-Friedrichshain since Sunday morning. As the Lower Saxony State Criminal Police Office announced on

Two men arrested

A spokesman for the Berlin police told rbb that two men had been arrested and their identities were now being clarified. When a door was opened, “the sounds of gunfire” were said to have been heard, he said. Previously, the Picture-Newspaper [Bild.de] reported.

The Markgrafendamm runs between Elsenbrücke and Ostkreuz train station parallel to the Ringbahn route. Because of the police operation, train traffic on lines S41, S42, S8 and S9 between the Treptower Park and Ostkreuz or Warschauer Straße stations is also interrupted, as the Berlin S-Bahn announced at X at 7:11 a.m.

Ex-RAF terrorists Staub and Garweg are also believed to be in Berlin

The former RAF terrorists Ernst-Volker Staub and Burkhard Garweg are probably in Berlin. And although both could be dangerous, according to the LKA Lower Saxony, there is “no concrete danger situation” for Berlin.more

Accomplice Klette caught earlier this week

Staub and Garweg’s accomplice, Daniela Klette, was there this week was arrested in Berlin. When her apartment was searched, heavy weapons were found – including a rocket-propelled grenade.

Since Klette’s arrest, investigators suspect that dust and dirt could be in Berlin. The State Criminal Police Office has recently intensified the search in and around Berlin for the former RAF terrorists. The Verden public prosecutor’s office and the Lower Saxony State Criminal Police Office have been searching for the trio for decades. The 65-year-old Klette is currently in custody because of six armed robberies on money transporters and supermarkets in Lower Saxony and North Rhine-Westphalia between 1999 and 2016.

Broadcast: rbb24 Inforadio, March 3, 2024, 9 a.m

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