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Second detained person in Berlin not wanted RAF member, say authorities

The decades-long search for the two other fugitives is still ongoing.

• February 28, 2024
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A second person detained in Berlin after the arrest of former far-left RAF terrorist Daniela Klette is not one of the two other wanted RAF members, Burkhard Garweg or Ernst-Volker Staub, authorities have said.

The man was released from police custody by the police in Hanover on Wednesday morning.

The decades-long search for the two other fugitives is still ongoing.

“There is no doubt that it is not one of the two fugitives,’’ authorities said.

Ms Klette, 65, was arrested in her rental apartment in Berlin on Monday evening, where she was living under a false identity, police said.

She is now in our custody while the Berlin police continue to search Ms Klette’s apartment

Shortly after Ms Klette’s arrest, another person in the wanted age segment was arrested in Berlin, police said.

Authorities accused Ms Klette and her fellow members, Mr Garweg and Mr Staub, of attempted murder and a series of armed robberies between 1999 and 2016.

The RAF was founded in 1968 by far-left extremists Andreas Baader, Gudrun Ensslin, and Ulrike Meinhof, with members active well into the 1990s.

The group justified its attacks, in which more than 30 people were killed, by destroying the capitalist social order. 

(dpa/NAN) 

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