Daniela Klette’s accomplices: New tips on ex-RAF terrorists are obtained virtually each week | EUROtoday

According to their very own statements, the investigators stay stubbornly on the path of the suspected ex-RAF terrorists Burkhard Garweg (57) and Ernst-Volker Staub (71). The Lower Saxony State Criminal Police Office stated the search was persevering with unabated even after Daniela Klette was arrested final 12 months. The authority didn’t present any info on the quantity or content material of the information – for “operational and investigative reasons”.

The 67-year-old has been on trial since March after being arrested in Berlin in February 2024. Together together with her alleged accomplices Garweg and Staub, she is claimed to have robbed a number of cash transporters and supermarkets in Lower Saxony, North Rhine-Westphalia and Schleswig-Holstein between 1999 and 2016 in an effort to finance her underground life. The gang is claimed to have stolen greater than 2.7 million euros.

These acts had no terrorist background. The three have been beforehand stated to have belonged to the so-called third RAF era, which carried out assaults and killed folks till the early Nineties. So far there’s just about no hint of cooking and mud.

However, the 57-year-old is claimed to have reported himself from the underground by letter. At the start of March, the left-wing newspaper “nd”, which was previously referred to as “Neues Deutschland”, revealed “a letter from Burkhard Garweg” in response to its personal account: “For me, the history of the RAF is also a history of strategic and tactical mistakes,” it says within the letter. However, the authenticity of the letter couldn’t be verified. However, it additionally requires Klette’s launch.

A spokeswoman for the Lower Saxony State Criminal Police Office stated on the time that the authority had taken observe of the put up. Garweg is claimed to have spoken out from the underground as early as the top of December 2024; the “Tageszeitung” (taz) revealed a letter that’s stated to have come from the ex-terrorist.

Report any observations to the police instantly

According to witness statements, Garweg, who went into hiding, could have fled to Hamburg in November 2024. According to the State Criminal Police Office, a number of witnesses stated that they had seen him within the Hanseatic metropolis on the finish of October 2024.

The ex-terrorist has so much in frequent with Hamburg: According to the authorities, he spent his youth there. He belonged to the left-wing scene in Hamburg and was additionally the editor of a left-wing newspaper. Garweg can be stated to have quickly lived in a trailer in Berlin-Friedrichshain below the code title Martin.

The investigators referred to as on folks to not examine any suspicious observations of the duo themselves, however to tell the police instantly. It is assumed that the fugitives needs to be categorized as harmful, warned the Lower Saxony State Criminal Police Office.

Klette, however, all the time receives help from activists. On the grounds of the driving corridor in Verden, which had been transformed right into a courtroom, supporters referred to as for solidarity with the defendant. She additionally spent her 67th birthday on November fifth in courtroom: When she entered the corridor, activists within the viewers stood up and sang “Happy Birthday”. Klette appeared touched, waved and prompt a hug.