DThe wanted RAF terrorist Burkhard Garweg lived in a caravan on a site in the Berlin district of Friedrichshain. A spokesman for the Lower Saxony State Criminal Police Office (LKA) said on Sunday that during the search of the area “the alleged accommodation of Burkhard Garweg might with high probability be identified”. The caravan was confiscated and is now being transported away for further investigations.
During the RAF police operation in Berlin, the emergency services temporarily arrested ten people on Sunday. The identity of the people was determined, as the LKA Lower Saxony announced in the followingnoon. Those affected did not offer any resistance. “All people have already been released following the identity verification measures have been completed,” it said. According to the information, the former RAF terrorists Ernst-Volker Staub and Burkhard Garweg were not among the people arrested. The search for them is ongoing.
According to the LKA, the sounds of gunfire were also noticeable during the searches. “These are related to a door opening.” No one was injured. The commercial site in Berlin-Friedrichshain was searched a few days following the arrest of former RAF terrorist Daniela Klette last Monday. The operation began on Sunday morning around 7:30 a.m. in a commercial area on the corner of Markgrafendamm and Persiusstrasse. According to a spokesman for the Berlin police, a total of 130 forces were deployed.
New photos of Garweg published
After Klette’s arrest on Monday evening, the LKA Lower Saxony and the Verden public prosecutor’s office published photos of Garweg on Saturday followingnoon, which were of high quality and, in the opinion of the LKA, also very current. The recordings are from 2021 to 2024.
The most recent picture shows Garweg eating on a sofa. He is sitting between two dogs, which can apparently also be seen in another of the seven published photos.
The picture released to the investigating authorities on March 2, 2024 shows the RAF terrorist Burkhard Garweg with two dogs.
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Image: Lower Saxony State Criminal Police Office
The trio Klette, Staub and Garweg are counted as part of the third generation of the left-wing terrorist Red Army Faction (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.
For decades, the RAF was the epitome of terror and murder in the west of still divided Germany. In 1998 it declared itself dissolved. Burdock, Staub and Garweg continued to live underground and committed numerous robberies, concentrated in northwest Germany. The known acts of the series of robberies occurred between 1999 and 2016. The last known act was a robbery in Cremlingen near Braunschweig, in which the trio is said to have stolen a very large sum of money.
Klette was arrested in Berlin-Kreuzberg on Monday evening. Weapons of war were found on her. The authorities are currently investigating whether these weapons were also used in the attacks. The investigators are currently concentrating their search particularly on Berlin and its surrounding area. The authorities assume that Garweg and dust continue to pose a danger.
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