{"id":25359,"date":"2026-05-28T01:32:17","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T01:32:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/25359\/"},"modified":"2026-05-28T01:32:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T01:32:17","slug":"germanys-most-wanted-woman-sentenced-after-decades-on-the-run","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/25359\/","title":{"rendered":"Germany\u2019s Most-Wanted Woman Sentenced After Decades on the Run"},"content":{"rendered":"

Germany\u2019s most-wanted woman was sentenced after more than three decades on the run.<\/p>\n

Daniela Klette<\/a>, a former member of the far-left German militant group Red Army Faction, was found guilty of aggravated robbery, violating weapons laws and other offenses, BBC<\/a> reported on Wednesday, May 27.<\/p>\n

The 67-year-old carried out her crimes over a 17-year period, between 1999 and 2016, according to the outlet. She was captured in February 2024, living in Berlin under the fake name Claudia, with a foreign passport.<\/p>\n

A judge sentenced Klette to 13 years behind bars for her crimes. Her alleged accomplices, Burkhard Garweg<\/a> and Ernst-Volker Staub<\/a>, however, have yet to be captured.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThey carried out their robberies with a division of labour and in a highly conspiratorial manner,\u201d Judge Lars Engelke<\/a> said, per The Guardian<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Upon her arrest, detectives uncovered a slew of wigs, forged documents, weapons, and more than $250,000 in cash, inside her apartment.<\/p>\n

Her alleged crimes while a member of the now-disbanded RAF \u2014 including three politically motivated attacks \u2014 will not be charged as the statute of limitations has expired, Counter Extremism Project head Hans-Jakob Schindler<\/a> told BBC.<\/p>\n

Schindler branded Klette \u201ca kind of grandmother heroine for the extreme left in Berlin.\u201d<\/p>\n

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