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Daniela Klette, found lively live in Berlin last year, has escaped the authorities for over 30 years.
A German court opened the trial of a former member of the famous faction of the Red Army on the left (RAF) which was arrested last year after being found living quietly in Berlin.
Now 66, Daniela Klette was translated on Tuesday before the court near Hanover in northern Germany for attempted murder, illegal possession of firearms and aggravated theft.
She is accused of having committed offenses alongside the accomplices Ernst-Volker Staub and Burkhard Garweg, who were also part of the group’s “third generation”, also known as Baader-Meinhof Gang.
Largely active in the 1970s and 80s, the RAF was responsible for the death of at least 30 people. In 1998, the group was dissolved.
However, the trio would have committed violent flights to finance their life on the run. They are accused of having stolen a total of 2.7 million euros ($ 2.9 million) between 1999 and 2016.
Bazooka
Police are still looking for Staub and Garweg, who are said to be 56 and 71 respectively, if they are still alive.
Klette would have acted mainly as an escapee. However, she also worn a “realistic” mannequin bazooka during the robberies and faces an accusation of attempted murder resulting from a flight in 2015.
The prosecutors opening the trial said that the three suspects had “proceeded to an extremely conspiratorial way”, renting cars and apartments under false names and sometimes burnt down vehicles to cover their traces.
A spokesperson for the German court told the reuters news agency that Klette risks for life.
The trial should last approximately two years, and 12 witnesses will be heard, according to the court.
Safety problems
Klette escaped the arrest for more than 30 years when the police went down to his Berlin apartment in February 2024 following a warning from a public member.
She would have used a false Italian passport in the name of Claudia Ivone. In his house, the police found an automated assault rifle, explosives and large sums of money.
The trial is held in a secure part of the superior regional court of that near Hanover due to security problems.
The building was obtained by police and justice agents armed with machine pistol and sniff dogs while a crowd of fifty people organized a solidarity demonstration.
Playing punk music, they held a banner that said “defending revolutionary history – freedom for Daniela and all political prisoners”.
Appointed according to the first leaders Andreas Baader and Ulrike Meinhof, the armed group was formed from the radical fringe of the 1960s’ protest movement.
At its beginnings, the group mobilized against what it considered as an American imperialism and a German “fascist” state riddled with former Nazi. He targeted representatives of government, affairs and judicial power.
At the height of its notoriety, the RAF killed a dead and kidnapped German bank leader and killed the industrialist and former officer of the SS Hanns Martin Schleyer.
In separate procedures at the trial launched on Tuesday, Klette is accused of having played a role in an attack on the RAF in 1991 against the United States Embassy in Bonn, the German capital at the time, and an attack on 1993 explosives against a prison.
