RAF-Investigations - Thousands of assets of ex-RAF terrorist Klette secured
Investigators secured several thousand items including weapons, ammunition, and money at the apartment of former RAF terrorist Daniela Klette in Berlin. They found amongst other things a Polish assault rifle, a Czech machine pistol, and a convincing replica of a grenade launcher, as the Prosecutor's Office Verden and the Criminal Investigation Office Lower Saxony announced. The investigators assume that Klette and her accomplices used these weapons and replicas during robberies. They are believed to have stolen around 2.7 million Euros in total.
Since 2015, the Prosecutor's Office Verden has been investigating Daniela Klette, Ernst-Volker Staub, and Burkhard Garweg for attempted murder as well as attempted and completed serious robberies in several cases. Klette was arrested at the end of February in Berlin-Kreuzberg, Staub and Garweg are still being sought after. They were part of the so-called third generation of the left-extremist Red Army Faction (RAF), which killed more than 30 people. The RAF declared itself dissolved in 1998.
The investigators have now published photos of the Seizures and hope to receive tips. They are addressing the public with several questions, for example, who can make statements about the findings, where the weapons come from, and where they were used.
- The Public Prosecutor's Office in Lower Saxony, Germany (LKA) is actively seeking information about the origin and usage of the weapons seized from Daniela Klette, following her arrest in Berlin-Kreuzberg.
- Ernst-Volker Staub and Burkhard Garweg, both associates of Klette, are still at large and wanted in connection with these cases of serious robbery and attempted murder.
- The investigation into Klette, Staub, and Garweg for their involvement in terrorism-related activities and criminality began in 2015 by the Prosecutor's Office Verden and Criminal Investigation Office Lower Saxony.
- Daniela Klette, a former member of the third generation of the left-extremist Red Army Faction (RAF), was taken into custody, while her accomplices remain at large, following a string of robberies and attempts to commit murder.
- Authorities assure that providing any information related to the seized weapons or the whereabouts of Staub and Garweg will be treated with complete confidentiality by the Lower Saxony's Public Prosecutor's Office.
- Daniela Klette and her associates are believed to have utilized weapons, including a Polish assault rifle, a Czech machine pistol, and a replica of a grenade launcher, during their criminal activities in Lower Saxony, Hamburg, and Hanover, Germany.
- The Prosecutor's Office Verden encourages the public to share any information regarding the weapons or the whereabouts of Staub and Garweg with the Criminal Investigation Office, Lower Saxony, Germany.
