Prosecutor and co-plaintiff: Burdock trial: Public prosecutor calls for 15 years in jail | EUROtoday

According to prosecutor Annette Marquardt, whether or not the defendant was a former terrorist is just not related. “These robberies have nothing to do with RAF,” she emphasised in her closing assertion earlier than the Verden regional court docket. Daniela Klette is a “serious criminal, nothing more and nothing less,” she mentioned. “That’s the facts.”

It is obvious to them that the defendant, collectively together with her alleged accomplices Burkhard Garweg and Ernst-Volker Staub, robbed cash transporters and supermarkets in a number of cities, masked and typically closely armed. The prosecutor demanded 15 years in jail for tried homicide, critical gang theft and violations of weapons legal guidelines. Two representatives of the co-plaintiffs additionally known as for lengthy jail sentences.

“Ms. Klette did wonderful bookkeeping”

According to the prosecution, the trio stole greater than two million euros in Lower Saxony, North Rhine-Westphalia and Schleswig-Holstein between 1999 and 2016. The prosecutor mentioned that Klette needed to make use of the stolen cash to finance her underground life and her holidays on the victims’ expense, “without regard to losses.” The German was arrested in her Berlin residence in February 2024, and there’s no hint of Garweg or mud.

Investigators discovered quite a few items of proof in Klette’s residence. “This apartment was an evidence chamber,” reported the prosecutor. “Thankfully Ms. Klette didn’t throw anything away.” Accordingly, there have been weapons, ammunition, a dummy bazooka, faux IDs, wigs, gold and 240,000 euros in money.

The investigators additionally secured photographs, sketches and recordings of routes of cash-in-transit automobiles, spied on supermarkets and police stations in Bremen, Lower Saxony and North Rhine-Westphalia. “Ms. Klette did wonderful accounting,” mentioned the prosecutor on the primary day of her plea.

The police additionally found a number of cell telephones, computer systems, balaclavas and camouflage pants within the residence. The garments have been “thankfully unwashed” in spite of everything these years, says the prosecutor. Experts have been capable of detect DNA traces of Garweg and burdock. Investigators later additionally discovered DNA traces in getaway vehicles, together with combined traces of burdock, in line with an skilled.

It was a sequence of high-yield robberies

The defendant confirmed a “high criminal energy” and a “brutal approach” within the robberies she was accused of, Marquardt mentioned in her closing assertion. Many victims are nonetheless scuffling with the psychological penalties at present.

The prosecutor emphasised that the quantity of the required sentence had nothing to do with Klette’s alleged RAF previous. Rather, the truth that it was a sequence of robberies with very excessive loot and quite a few victims ought to be assessed as making the punishment extra extreme. “Many of those injured have long-term consequences,” mentioned the prosecutor. Even if the victims remained bodily unhurt, the assaults have been harmful for everybody concerned. The defendant didn’t present any regret till the top.

The public prosecutor accuses Klette of selfishness

The public prosecutor’s workplace nonetheless considers the theft in Stuhr close to Bremen to be tried homicide. The presiding choose questioned this cost in the course of the trial. The lawyer demanded that Klette stay in custody till a remaining conviction. Otherwise there’s a threat that it’ll return underground.

The public prosecutor’s workplace criticized Klette’s habits in court docket with harsh phrases. She mentioned she skilled the defendant as “completely self-centered.” “Remorse and insight clearly look different.”

This was proven as soon as once more when a police officer reported as a witness that an eleven-year-old who occurred to be current at against the law scene was subsequently handled for a 12 months. When describing the story, Klette “partially grinned and shook his head.” “That really pissed me off,” emphasised Marquardt.

Two sufferer legal professionals additionally emphasised how their purchasers are nonetheless affected by the results of what they skilled. They reported sleep issues, anxiousness and incapability to work. Your purchasers are damaged folks. The lawyer who represented a sufferer of an tried theft on a cash-in-transit car in Wolfsburg on December 28, 2015, known as for a jail sentence of 11 years for this act. “I assume that everyone played a very equal role,” he mentioned, referring to the trio.

Co-plaintiff calls for justice

The lawyer who represents a sufferer of a theft within the vault of a grocery store in Bochum on December 27, 2006 didn’t title a particular sentence, however referred to the general public prosecutor’s statements. “This is not about revenge, but about justice,” he mentioned. Injustice should not fade away and violence mustn’t ever be seen as a reputable means.

Klette didn’t look instantly on the public prosecutor or the representatives of the co-plaintiffs once they made their statements: she both checked out her paperwork or regarded across the courtroom. At the beginning of the trial, she hugged her protection attorneys after which took off her footwear.

The trial will proceed on May twelfth with one other plea from the co-plaintiff.