By Avril Pierre
Published yesterday at 8:48 p.m., updated 54 minutes ago
Daniela Klette, 65 years old and former member of the RAF, was arrested in this building in Berlin on February 27th. JOHN MACDOUGALL / AFP
Daniela Klette had been wanted since the 1990s for her alleged involvement in the RAF, a left-wing extremist group that killed around thirty people.
correspondent in Berlin,
With the arrest of one of the last members of the Red Army Faction on the run on Monday evening, a new part of the veil was opened over the years of leadership in the former Federal Republic of Germany. 66-year-old Daniela Klette, who went into hiding after the RAF disbanded in 1998, was arrested in Berlin in the former alternative district of Kreuzberg along with a man whose identity is not yet known. Investigators hope that his two most important followers at the time, Burkhard Garweg, 55, and Ernst-Volker Staub, 69, could fall in the process, thus closing the page on a tragedy. Decade of left-wing terrorism in which 23 people died It's a trail.
“The fact that a terrorist now has to answer for her actions in court is an important and clear sign of the rule of law,” said Lower Saxony’s Interior Minister Kathrin Heike Wahlmann on Tuesday in a press release from the Conference State, which helped instruct…
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