Hundreds march in Berlin to demand release of Red Army Faction fugitive

Record ID: 1771152

  • Title: Hundreds march in Berlin to demand release of Red Army Faction fugitive
  • Date: 9th March 2024
  • Summary: BERLIN, GERMANY (MARCH 9, 2024) (REUTERS) NIGHT VIEW OF PROTESTERS GATHERED IN BERLIN’S MARIANNEN SQUARE IN ARTY KREUZBERG DISTRICT, PLACARD SHOWING DECADES-OLD POLICE MUG SHOT OF DANIELA KLETTE WITH SLOGAN READING IN GERMAN “FREEDOM FOR DANIELA / THE SYSTEM IS TERRORIST” CHANTING PROTESTERS HOLDING BLACK BANNER READING IN GERMAN “FREEDOM AND HAPPINESS / STOP STATE TERRORI
  • Embargoed: 23rd March 2024 18:15
  • Keywords: 1980s 1990s Daniela Klette RAF Red Army Faction deadly attacks militant group terror
  • Location: BERLIN & KARLSRUHE, GERMANY
  • City: BERLIN & KARLSRUHE, GERMANY
  • Country: Germany
  • Topics: Europe
  • Reuters ID: LVA001675209032024RP1
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
  • Story Text: Several hundred protesters marched in Berlin on Saturday (March 9) to demand the release of a recently arrested former member of Germany's Red Army Faction (RAF) militant group who was on the run for three decades.
    Daniela Klette, 65, a member of the so-called third generation of the RAF, had long been sought alongside two other members of the group, Burkhard Garweg and Ernst-Volker Staub who are still fugitives.
    Klette was arrested in a Berlin apartment on the evening of Feb. 26.
    Saturday’s demonstration took place two days after Klette made an initial appearance at the country's Federal Court of Justice.
    A statement from the Attorney General's office, citing the arrest warrant, said Klette took part in three RAF attacks between February 1990 and March 1993.
    Founded by Andreas Baader and Ulrike Meinhof among others, the far-left RAF's first generation emerged from German student protests of the late 1960s.
    The group took hostages and murdered more than 30 people, including public officials, police officers, business leaders, and U.S. soldiers.
    The group formally disbanded in 1998 with some members slipping back into ordinary lives.
    (Production: Oliver Ellrodt, Stephan Schepers, Michele Sani)
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