German Court Jails Former RAF Member for Armed Robberies

A court in Verden, Lower Saxony, sentenced Daniela Klette to 13 years in prison on Wednesday for aggravated robbery, weapons violations and related offenses. The court found Klette guilty of eight robberies carried out with two other former members of the Red Army Faction between July 1999 and June 2016. 4 million.

Klette was arrested in a Berlin apartment in February 2024 after an investigative journalist used AI facial recognition to match an old wanted poster with recent online images. Police recovered weapons, ammunition, wigs, false documents, gold and €240,000 in cash. She had lived under the name Claudia on Sebastianstrasse in the Kreuzberg district using a foreign passport.

Klette belonged to the Red Army Faction, which carried out attacks from the early 1970s until the early 1990s. S. embassy in Bonn. A decision on whether those charges will proceed rests with authorities in Frankfurt. The two other robbery suspects, Burkhard Garweg and Ernst-Volker Staub, remain at large.