2024-02-28 19:29:53
Weapons were found in the Berlin apartment of former RAF terrorist Daniela Klette on Wednesday. This was confirmed in the evening by a spokeswoman for the Lower Saxony State Criminal Police Office. The Berlin newspaper “Der Tagesspiegel” had previously reported on the weapons discovery. The evacuation of the residential building in the Kreuzberg district had nothing to do with this weapon discovery, said the LKA spokeswoman in Hanover.
According to the responsible Lower Saxony public prosecutor’s office in Verden, the search was also continuing for former RAF members Ernst-Volker Staub (69) and Burkhard Garweg (55). However, a man who was also temporarily arrested in Berlin is now at large once more. “There is no doubt that it is not one of the two criminals who are still on the run,” said the Lower Saxony State Criminal Police Office in Hanover on Wednesday.
The man was released from police action. LKA President Friedo de Vries explained on Tuesday that the man was in the “sought age group”. The Interior Ministry spokeswoman did not provide any information regarding the context in which he was arrested.
Klette is in custody for several robberies. According to the LKA, she lived in a Berlin apartment under a false identity. According to a neighbor, she had the first name Claudia. According to the LKA, during the search the investigators found magazines from a weapon and cartridges, among other things. A weapon has not yet been found.
According to an authority spokeswoman, an arrest warrant once morest Klette that was obtained years ago by the German Federal Prosecutor’s Office in Karlsruhe is still in force. Klette is being investigated for causing an explosive explosion and attempted murder in crimes in the early 1990s.
Meanwhile, it became known that the apartment building in Berlin-Kreuzberg in which the former suspected RAF terrorist Klette lived was evacuated on Wednesday because of a possible danger. All residents had to leave their apartments in the followingnoon and then stood on the street.
There was initially no official reason, but a police crime scene investigator said: “Because we found something that was dangerous.” The police forensic scientists also had to leave the house on Sebastianstrasse. It was not initially known whether explosives specialists or bomb defusers were called in.
Specifically, Klette is accused of having carried out an explosive attack on the Weiterstadt prison, which was under construction, in March 1993 together with the still wanted RAF terrorists Ernst-Volker Staub and Burkhard Garweg. The explosion caused damage to the building amounting to around 123 million German marks.
Klette is also said to have attempted with other RAF members to carry out an explosive attack on a Deutsche Bank building in Eschborn in February 1990. The explosive did not detonate because the ignition failed. In addition, according to investigators’ findings, Klette and RAF members fired at least 250 shots at the US embassy in Bad Godesberg in February 1991.
The arrest by target investigators was preceded by years of investigative work led by the Verden public prosecutor’s office. The prosecution accuses Klette, Garweg and Staub of attempted murder and a series of serious robberies between 1999 and 2016. The crime scenes were in Lower Saxony and North Rhine-Westphalia. The public prosecutor’s office assumes that the attacks were not politically motivated. Rather, the accused are said to have committed the crimes in order to get money for their underground life.
The Lower Saxony authorities initially did not comment on the question of which prison Klette was taken to. A Justice Department spokeswoman cited security considerations. She also did not want to comment on whether Klette was in solitary confinement. She also has no information as to whether Klette should be brought to the Federal Prosecutor’s Office in Karlsruhe.
The trio Klette, Staub and Garweg are assigned to the so-called third RAF generation. The journalist and RAF expert Stefan Aust said regarding this on Tuesday evening in the ZDF “heute-journal” that the second generation tried to free the first from prison. “When that didn’t work, there was the third generation, and they did one thing: they simply committed murder. They simply shot people or set traps for them.”
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