Former leftist militant arrested after 30 years on the run, Germany’s police say

• Daniela Klett, a former member of the disbanded left-wing extremist Red Army faction, has been arrested in Berlin after being on the run for more than 30 years.
• Klett, along with Ernst-Volker Staub and Burkhard Gerweg, has long been sought by police for involvement in at least 12 robberies and attempted murders in northern Germany between 1999 and 2016. I was receiving it.
• The trio were added to Europol’s “Europe’s Most Wanted” list in 2020.

German authorities announced on Tuesday that a former member of the disbanded left-wing extremist group Red Army Faction had been captured after more than 30 years on the run.

Prosecutors in the northern town of Verden confirmed the arrest of Daniela Klett, 65, but did not immediately provide further details. Daily newspaper Bild reported that she was arrested in Berlin on Monday night, citing unnamed security sources.

Klett is one of three former Red Army faction members that police have been searching for for years. Klett, Ernst-Volker Staub and Burkhard Gerweg are believed to have been involved in at least 12 robberies in northern Germany between 1999 and 2016, and were also being sought on suspicion of attempted murder.

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Authorities suspect the motive for the robbery was to obtain money rather than politics.

In mid-February, investigators issued a new appeal for information about the trio on a popular TV crime show. They were included in Europol’s “Europe’s Most Wanted” list in 2020.

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The Red Army faction was born out of the German student movement against the Vietnam War. The group launched a violent campaign against what its members saw as US imperialism and capitalism’s oppression of workers.

The group killed 34 people and injured hundreds more. They announced their dissolution in 1998.