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Jörg Schleyer (recording from 2011): “Thinking” about the consequences
Photo: Franziska Kraufmann/dpa
The youngest son of the murdered employer president Hanns-Martin Schleyer has reacted with relief to the arrest of the former RAF terrorist Daniela Klette.
However, he also criticized the authorities.
The fact that an RAF terrorist could live undetected and unmolested in the middle of Berlin by the Office for the Protection of the Constitution was “scary” to him, said Jörg Schleyer, 70, to the “Bild” newspaper.
Politicians must “think” about the consequences.
The left-wing extremist organization Red Army Faction (RAF) was considered the epitome of terror in the Federal Republic for decades.
In total, the RAF murdered more than 30 people and more than 200 were injured.
One of the victims in 1977 was employer president Hanns Martin Schleyer.
The RAF disbanded in 1998.
Klette and the two still wanted terrorists Burkhard Garweg and Ernst-Volker Staub are assigned to the so-called third RAF generation.
Schleyer said he was “very happy” about Klette’s arrest in Berlin on Monday.
The success of the search proves that “even today there is still a realistic chance of solving left-wing terrorist murders.
This is reassuring for me and for many relatives of the 34 RAF murder victims to know."
The murders “should not remain unsolved, unpunished and therefore unpunished,” said Schleyer and thanked “the investigators from Lower Saxony for their persistence.”
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