- Daniela Klett, 65, was arrested in Berlin on Monday afternoon after more than 30 years in hiding.
- Police found grenades and other dangerous items while searching her apartment.
- She is accused of participating in robberies between 1999 and 2016, along with two other alleged former members of the Red Army faction, Ernst Volker Staub and Burkhard Gerweg.
A suspected former member of the left-wing extremist Red Army faction was arrested this week, and a search of the Berlin apartment where he had been hiding for more than 30 years turned up grenades and other dangerous materials, police said Thursday.
Daniella Klett, 65, was arrested Monday afternoon. Much is unknown about her whereabouts over the past 30 years, but it appears that for some time she was living in the German capital under a false name.
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 members who are on the run, Ernst Volker Staub and Burkhard Gerweg.
Former left-wing extremist arrested after more than 30 years on the run, German authorities announce
The Red Army faction, which grew out of the German student movement against the Vietnam War, killed 34 people and injured hundreds more.
Police said Thursday that a suspected former member of the left-wing extremist Red Army faction was arrested this week and that a search of a Berlin apartment where he had been hiding for more than 30 years turned up grenades and other dangerous materials. (Annette Riedl/DPA, via AP)
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.
Police said Tuesday that an initial search of Klett’s apartment found a magazine and two cartridges that fit a handgun, but no weapon was found.
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On Wednesday night, they evacuated a seven-story building and blocked streets in the city’s Kreuzberg district as they took grenades and other unspecified items. Early Thursday morning, Berlin police posted on social network X that the work was completed and residents could return home.
The case in which Klett was arrested only involved a robbery that took place after the group had disbanded, and authorities believe that the robbery was not politically motivated and was intended to fund the underground life of the three suspects. I think there was.
But federal prosecutors maintain that an arrest warrant issued long ago for Klett in connection with his alleged activities with Red Army factions in the early 1990s remains valid.
