Former Baader-Meinhof gang member Daniela Klette, 67, jailed for armed robberies after decades on the run
Prosecutors said the robberies funded life on the run after the Red Army Faction disbanded, and the total haul reached 2.4 million euros.
- On May 27, a regional court in Verden, Germany sentenced Daniela Klette, 67, a former Red Army Faction member, to 13 years in prison for six counts of 'particularly serious robbery' and other charges committed between 1999 and 2016.
- Klette's arrest in February 2024 ended more than 30 years evading authorities; police found a Kalashnikov assault rifle, explosives and €279,000 in cash at her Berlin flat in Kreuzberg, where she had lived about 20 years under an assumed identity.
- Working with two male accomplices, Klette served as getaway driver in robberies netting 2.4 million euros since 1999, operating with what Presiding Judge Lars Engelke described as 'a division of labour and in a highly conspiratorial manner.'
- Courtroom supporters chanted 'Freedom for Daniela' when the judge announced the sentence, which fell short of prosecutors' 15-year request; Klette's defence team argued evidence was insufficient and sought suspension.
- Klette faces additional charges in separate proceedings for three politically motivated attacks between 1990 and 1993, while co-conspirators Burkhard Garweg and Ernst-Volker Staub remain fugitive; appearing in court in 2025, she vowed to continue fighting 'capitalism and patriarchy.
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Michael Buback, son of Siegfried Buback, Federal Attorney General, who was killed by the RAF in 1977, recalls this after the conviction of former RAF terrorist Daniela Klette in favour of a more intensive investigation of the crimes committed by the Red Army faction. "The verdict against Daniela Klette does not put a stop to it," Buback told the editorial network Germany (RND). "It is not yet legally valid, but above all the second one took plac…
After spending decades in a Brazilian community in Berlin, a former member of the Red Army Fraction (RAF) was sentenced on Wednesday to 13 years in prison. The 67-year-old German Daniela Klette was found guilty by a regional court in the city of Verden, Lower Saxony, for six counts of robbery, as well as crimes related to kidnapping for ransom, possession of weapons, and violations of weapons legislation — all crimes committed after the dissolut…
The trial against Daniela Klette seemed like an echo from RAF times – with political slogans, former companions in the courtroom and a defendant who staged herself as a victim of state persecution. To this day, the RAF serves as a point of reference for left-wing extremist groups.
The alleged former member of the former armed organization Red Army Fraction (RAF) Daniela Klette was sentenced on Wednesday in Germany to 13 years in prison for the thefts committed between 1999 and 2006 to finance her life in hiding after the group's dissolution. The Greenn (North) Regional Court found her guilty of aggravated robbery in six cases, as well as violations of the law of armament and kidnapping with extortion, among other crimes, …
Robberies, bomb plots and 30 years on the run: Germany jails the ‘far-left grandmothe
Former RAF member Daniela Klette, captured after 30 years using AI facial recognition, was sentenced in Germany to 13 years in prison for armed robberies including a 1.4 million EUR armored truck heist; Terror charges remain under review
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