Police searched rooms in Berlin-Friedrichshain in connection with the search for two escaped former RAF terrorists, Staub and Burkhard Garweg. The identities of those arrested are still being verified.
The Lower Saxony State Criminal Police Office has confirmed two arrests in connection with the search for two fugitive former RAF terrorists, Staub and Burkhard Garweg, in Germany. At one location, sounds of gunshots were heard during the arrest, but there were no injuries, a spokeswoman said Sunday. The identities of the two people are being verified.
Police searched rooms in Berlin-Friedrichshain on Sunday morning. This was said by a spokeswoman for the Main Criminal Police Department of the State of Lower Saxony in Berlin. She initially did not provide further details. A DPA reporter observed two men being taken away.
Like Daniela Klette, who was arrested in Berlin on Monday, Staub and Garweg belonged to the third generation of the former left-wing extremist terrorist organization, Red Army Faction. During his active time, the then head of Deutsche Bank, Alfred Herrhausen (1989), and the head of Treuhand, 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 still-divided west of Germany. In 1998 it declared itself dissolved. Burdock, Staub and Garweg are also wanted for a series of later cash-in-transit robberies.
In addition to the Lower Saxony LKA, the Federal Criminal Police and Berlin police were involved in the operation. The operation began at around 7:30 am in a shopping area on the corner of Markgrafendamm and Persiusstrasse. (APA/dpa)