German police have arrested 65-year-old Daniela Klette, a member of the third generation of the Red Army Faction (RAF), also known as the Baader-Meinhof organisation, in Berlin. Daniela Klete had been evading arrest for decades.
Authorities accuse Daniela Klete, along with her comrades Burkhard Garweg and Ernst-Foller Staub, of attempted murder and a series of armed robberies between 1999 and 2016.
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The public prosecutor’s office in Verden, Lower Saxony, considers that the armed robberies were not politically motivated but were committed for financial reasons.
Daniella Clette is suspected, together with Burkhard Garweg and Ernst-Foller Staub, on the basis of DNA analyses, of a series of armed robberies in supermarkets and money markets in North Rhine-Westphalia and Lower Saxony.
The RAF is responsible for killing more than 30 people and injuring at least 200.
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Staub, Klette and Garweg belonged to the third generation of the RAF, which was active in the 1980s and 1990s.
Members of the third generation are believed to have assassinated the head of Deutsche Bank, Alfred Herhausen, and of Treuhand, the agency tasked with managing and privatising state property in East Germany after German reunification, Detlef Rohwender.
In 1998 a statement signed by the RAF and sent to Reuters announced the dissolution of the organisation.
