A former member of the defunct German communist guerrilla group Red Army Faction was arrested in Berlin on Tuesday after evading police for decades, Euronews reports.
Daniela Klett, 65, a former member of the group, also known as the Baader-Meinhof gang, was arrested in her Berlin apartment after a tip-off alerted police to her in November. I got it.. (Related article: Teenage communist profiled by NYT and NPR arrested for allegedly trying to throw incendiary bomb at Israeli-run company)
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Lower Saxony state criminal police chief Fried de Vries told reporters that Klett did not resist arrest, Euronews reported. When police searched his home, they found two magazines and handgun bullets, but no firearm, the newspaper said. The newspaper said police also found a foreign passport that listed Klett under a different name.
Klett belonged to the third generation of the so-called Red Army faction, which was disbanded in 1998, Reuters said. report. The newspaper said the terrorist group was responsible for at least 33 murders, as well as several kidnappings and bank robberies.
She has been charged by police with attempted murder and a series of armed robberies from 1999 to 2016, and police are also searching for former Red Army faction members Burkhard Gerweg and Ernst Volker Staub. , the case involved the theft of millions of euros. According to Reuters.
Klett was already wanted in a 1993 prison bombing that resulted in the abduction of a guard and more than $600,000 in property damage, prosecutors announced in 2016. according to This was reported to Agence France-Presse (AFP). The newspaper noted that she was also a suspect in two other Red Army faction operations.
Europol, the European Union's law enforcement agency, has listed Klett as “Europe's most wanted fugitive.” list And consider her dangerous.