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Updated Tuesday, February 27, 2024-12:23

The former terrorist of the Red Army Faction (RAF)

Daniela Klette

has been detained in Berlin without resisting after 30 years in search and capture, as confirmed to EFE by a spokesperson for the

Verden Prosecutor's Office

(eastern Germany).

Also known as the

Baader-Meinhof gang

, the Marxist group that advocated armed struggle was active between the 1970s and 1990s and is accused of at least 33 murders, as well as kidnappings and bomb attacks.

The woman, born in 1958 in

Karlsruhe

(south), was arrested thanks to a fingerprint in the Berlin district of

Kreuzberg

.

Police found ammunition in her home, according to local media.

The trio made up of Klette and his companions

Ernst-Volker Staub

and

Burkhard Garweg

are accused of attempted murder and several violent robberies committed after going underground following the dissolution of the RAF in 1998.

Since then, German Justice has never given up trying to find the whereabouts of those now known as 'RAF pensioners'.

On February 9, the Verden Prosecutor's Office had reported that in recent months new evidence had emerged as a result of various actions, including searches at the homes of

Garweg

's relatives .

Then, the Prosecutor's Office noted that it remained "uncertain" whether the defendants - placed in 2020 on Europol

's most wanted list

- were in Germany or abroad.

The researchers' hypothesis is that the trio lived in Germany at least between 1999 and 2016 with the help of third parties and committed several violent robberies during that period, not for political reasons but to finance their life in hiding.

The group belonged to the so-called 'third generation' of the RAF, a group responsible among others for the assassination of the State Attorney General

Siegfried Buback

and in 1989 of the president of Deutsche Bank

Alfred Herrhausen

in a bomb attack.

Klette herself had been active in leftist organizations since 1975 and is suspected of being involved in several bomb attacks, although her specific role within the RAF remains the subject of speculation.