Far-left RAF terror suspect Daniela Klette arrested in Berlin | DW News

Far-left RAF terror suspect Daniela Klette arrested in Berlin | DW News

Now to an arrest here in Berlin that has sent shock waves across Germany police have arrested a 65-year-old woman now German newspaper build reported that her neighbors knew her as Claudia but she’s actually Daniel cleta who’s been on the run for more than 30 years as a suspected member of a far-left militant

Group that terrorized West Germany during the 1970s and 80s danela clet had been in hiding for more than 30 years she belonged to the left wing extremist group The Red Army faction now the suspected former terrorist has been arrested in a Berlin apartment we are certain that the person

Arrested is danila cleta who has been living underground for 30 years this ends a Manhunt that has been going on for almost 9 years the Red Army faction was founded in the spring of 1970 by Andreas B Ur minov and gudu nen their common goal to change the political system even through

Violence for more than 20 years a terrorist organization fought against what they viewed as West Germany’s imperialist system the RF committed 34 murders numerous bank robberies and bombings more than 200 people were injured during attacks blamed on the group in April 1998 the RAF announced its dissolution many of the terrorist groups

Crimes have still not been solved federal police are still searching for suspected AR have members accused of attempted murder and robbery an Dana clet and bat garik among others have been wanted for years terrorists can never feel safe not even after 30 years not even after such

A long time and our security authorities are highly professional and always able to track down and apprehend terrorists even after a long time following the rest of Dani laeta a second person whose identity has not been released was also arrested in connection with the Manhunt more from our political

Correspondent Julia selli welcome Julia 30 years how did this arrest come about we heard from investigators that this came about because of a tip off that they received back in November which led to further investigations into the case until the arrest happened today and we also might want to note that in

The last few weeks and months investigators had put out a € 150,000 uh prize and money for whoever would come forward with information that would lead to an arrest and that might have led also to the tip off but we’ve heard from investigators that they arrested uh danela cleta in her

Apartment in Berlin that she did not pose any resistance that she had with her a foreign forged passport with false information on her identity on it we heard that she was arrested and taken to a jail in Northern Germany where she was uh put forward six arrest warrants for

Serious robbery and that her identity was confirmed through uh fingerprints right and so just tell us more about who she is and why her arrest is such a big deal in Germany yes she was a member of uh the Red Army faction the ra F Group which

Was a leftwing terrorist group which was active from the 1970s to the 1990s she was part of the group between the 80s and the ’90s and this is a group that wrought uh Terror in Western Germany and Germany during that period they are accused of 34 murders they killed

Industrialists they killed judges they killed police officers and They carried out bombings and robberies now she was uh in in the case of what she’s being accused of she was accused of robberies that were were carried out after the dissolution of the Red Army faction and which means that they weren’t

Politically motivated she was carrying out these robberies likely to finance her life in hiding underground uh hiding from the authorities but this is a significant arrest she was one of the few remaining members of the RAF not to have been arrested or to still be alive

And being manh hunted and how was she able to uh be at large for so long well she was living underground basically for the last 30 years and she had fake passports fake identities so it was a quite unorganized a situation where she had gone into hiding and one

Thing we also should keep in mind is that farle terrorist groups were widespread in Europe from the 1970s onwards and that there was a strong Network between these organizations and that uh had a quite a strong support network underground so uh she she managed for these many years to to

Remain under the radar also because of this infrastructure likely supporting her too okay thanks for that Julia Julia selli at DW political correspondent

A suspect believed to have been a member of the far-left Red Army Faction has been arrested in Berlin. Daniela Klette is one of three fugitives who have remained underground since the 1990s.

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