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Wanted poster from the LKA Lower Saxony
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After a new search call with reference to the ZDF program "Aktenzeichen XY... unsolved", 52 tips have already been received about three former members of the Red Army Faction (RAF). The Verden public prosecutor's office said these tips to the Lower Saxony State Criminal Police Office made further investigations necessary, some of which were ongoing.
The accused Ernst-Volker Staub, Daniela Marie Luise Klette and Burkhard Garweg are accused of, among other things, attempted murder and a series of serious robberies. The three former RAF terrorists wanted went into hiding in the 1990s. DNA evidence led investigators to the conclusion that the three could be responsible for robberies of cash transport and supermarkets between 1999 and 2016.
Crime scenes included Wolfsburg, Cremlingen and Stuhr in Lower Saxony as well as Bochum-Wattenscheid and Essen in North Rhine-Westphalia. The Verden public prosecutor's office assumes that the robberies were not politically motivated, but that the three used them to finance their living underground, which is why further crimes are possible. In the ZDF program “Aktenzeichen XY... unsolved” this Wednesday, the serious consequences of the crimes for the victims will also be discussed.
Staub, Garweg and Burdock are counted as part of the so-called third generation of the left-wing extremist RAF. The terrorist organization disbanded in 1998. The third RAF generation is accused of, among other things, the murders of Deutsche Bank boss Alfred Herrhausen in 1989 and Treuhand boss Detlev Karsten Rohwedder in 1991.
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