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Far-left fugitive Daniela Klette is arrested in Germany after 30 years on the run: 'Red Army Faction militant', 65, is held in Berlin decades after anti-capitalist group's campaign of violence left dozens dead
Klette was the only woman tagged as 'dangerous' on Europol's most-wanted list
By ELENA SALVONI and AFP
PUBLISHED: 12:06 EST, 27 February 2024 | UPDATED: 13:06 EST, 27 February 2024
Far left fugitive Daniela Klette, a former member of the notorious Red Army Faction group which left dozens dead in a long campaign of violence, has been arrested in Germany after 30 years on the run.
The 65-year-old was one of Europe's most wanted people and was among a long-sought trio from the radical anti-capitalist group, which was also known as the Baader Meinhof gang.
The group carried out several bombings, kidnappings and killings that traumatised Germany in the 1970s and 1980s, leaving 34 people dead and hundreds injured.
Since it disbanded in 1998, Klette and fellow gang members Ernst-Volker Staub and Burkhard Garweg are believed to have been financing their lives on the run through robberies of money transporters and supermarket cash heists.
Klette, the only woman tagged as 'dangerous' on Europol's most-wanted list, was arrested on Monday in the German capital on suspicion of attempted murder and various serious robberies between 1999 and 2016, prosecutors in Verden said.
The suspect showed no resistance as she was detained at an apartment in the city's Kreuzberg district after being identified via fingerprints, said Hanover police chief Friedo de Vries.
Police found two pistol magazines as well as cartridges in the apartment, de Vries said.
Daniela Behrens, interior minister for the state of Lower Saxony, described the arrest as a 'milestone in German criminal history'.
Klette had been in hiding in Berlin for 20 years, according to the Bild newspaper.
Neighbours told the popular daily she went by the name of Claudia, had a partner about the same age as her and always said 'hello' when she went out walking with her dog.
A steady flow of police officers were still coming and going from the building on Tuesday afternoon.
Shop assistant Karina Ziegler, 46, said she was 'surprised' to see the crowds of officers two blocks down from her workplace this morning on what had begun as 'a completely normal day'.
The anti-capitalist RAF emerged out of the radicalised fringe of the 1960s student protest movement.