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Ex-RAF terrorists: BKA asks for support in search
Berlin police officers in front of the apartment of former RAF terrorist Daniela Klette. photo
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Heavy weapons were found on the arrested former RAF terrorist Klette. The search for the two suspected accomplices who are still wanted is in full swing.
Four days after the arrest of the former RAF terrorist Daniela Klette The Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA) asked the public for help in finding their suspected accomplices. “After arrest in Berlin, search for 2 suspected former RAF terrorists,” wrote the BKA on the Internet portal X (formerly Twitter). BKA and LKA Lower Saxony “ask for help”.
The BKA’s wanted page contains extensive information about the suspected former RAF members Ernst-Volker Staub (69) and Burkhard Garweg (55). But there is also a warning: “Please do not approach the people you are looking for, they could be armed!” The BKA emphasizes: “The investigating authorities are also specifically targeting the families of the accused, their circle of friends and former RAF supporters.” Tips could be submitted confidentially via a protected internet system.
Reward totaling at least 150,000 euros
The two men are also listed among the most wanted fugitives by the European police authority Europol. Both of them explicitly say: “Dangerous.” It is added: “A reward totaling at least 150,000 euros has been offered by various authorities for information that leads to the arrest of the accused.”
Specifically, according to the Verden public prosecutor’s office, Burdock, Staub and Garweg are said to be responsible, among other things, for robberies of money transporters and supermarkets in Lower Saxony and North Rhine-Westphalia between 1999 and 2016. The trio is also accused of attempted murder because shots were fired during robberies. There are also arrest warrants on suspicion of involvement in terrorist attacks. According to the Verden public prosecutor’s office, Klette remains silent about the allegations.
Heavy weapons of war found in Klette’s apartment
Klette was arrested by the police in Berlin-Kreuzberg on Monday after a 30-year manhunt. In her apartment, police found a Kalashnikov assault rifle, a submachine gun, a pistol, ammunition and a rocket-propelled grenade. According to the police and public prosecutor’s office, it is reasonable to suspect that Staub and Garweg could also have stashed weapons and explosives. Their apartments could pose a “potential risk to the population,” it was said on Thursday.
The left-wing extremist organization Red Army Faction (RAF) was the epitome of terror and murder in Germany from the 1970s to the 90s. Garweg, Burdock and Staub belong to the so-called third generation of the RAF. During their active time, the then Deutsche Bank boss Alfred Herrhausen (1989) and Treuhand boss Detlev Karsten Rohwedder (1991) were murdered and Herrhausen’s driver was seriously injured.