BERLIN (AP) – German investigators on Wednesday released a new number on the whereabouts of two suspected former members of the left-wing extremist Red Army faction on the run, following the arrest last month of a former comrade who had been in hiding for decades. They announced that they are investigating 100 new pieces of information.
Daniela Klett, 65, was arrested on February 26 in Berlin, where she had been living under a false identity. Police later discovered a cache of weapons in her apartment.
Klett is suspected of being involved in a series of robberies between 1999 and 2016, after the Red Army faction was disbanded. She is suspected of robbery and attempted murder, along with two other former Red Army Faction members who are on the run, Ernst Volker Staub and Burkhard Gerweg.
The Red Army faction, which grew out of the German student movement against the Vietnam War, killed 34 people and injured hundreds more. The group launched a violent campaign against what its members saw as US imperialism and capitalism’s oppression of workers. They announced their dissolution in 1998.
Staub, 69, and Gerweg, 55, have remained missing since investigators tracked Klett down.
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Investigators said in a statement that they now believe Gerweg spent time at Klett’s apartment and that Gerweg himself had lived in various parts of Berlin over the years. They said he and Klett appeared to have had a “very close relationship.”
Evidence of a relationship with Staub was also found in the apartment. ID cards and driver’s licenses found there revealed that Klett was using four false names.
Police and prosecutors said they were reviewing about 760 new tips received after Klett’s arrest.
