“I am aware of my situation. It will be a trial with a lot of political burden even if the opposite is held,” said the alleged terrorist of the extinct RAF Daniela Klettewhen he finally took the floor, five hours after his trial began. It is not judged by its alleged involvement in the attacks of the Red Army Fraction (RAF)but for 13 robberies armedcommitted according to the accusation between 1999 and 2016 for the trio that formed with the fugitives Burkhard Garweg Y Ernst-Volker Staub. But about their process they plan the Outgoing murders never clarified, among the total of the 34 fatalities and 200 injured that left the self -proclaimed German anti -capitalist and Marxist band until its dissolution in 1998.
He Murder does not prescribe, is the maximum of German judicial system which applies to both late trials against nonagenarians or even centenary complicit Nazism and against former terrorists such as Klette, 66. It is considered a member of the Third generation of the band that founded in the mid -70s Andreas Baader Y Ulrike Meinhof. The robberies that are attributed to the Klette trio correspond to his ‘second life’, which was worked as ‘Claudia’, under different false surnames. He had been sought by the police for 30 years until in February last year the police knocked on his door. For its neighbors, she was the kind woman of a floor of the fifth floor in the Sebastiastrasse, 73, in the multiethnic district of Kreuzberg. He took the dog for a walk, giving mathematics recovery classes and danced Capoeira in a neighborhood group.
A journalistic research group recognized on Facebook his face among the dancers of a neighborhood carnival parade. This revealed his authentic identity as a key piece of the trio of ‘RAF retirees’as they are called for age, which perpetrated their robberies armed in different parts of the country, with a Total booty of 2.7 million euros. In its modest two -bedroom floor he kept automatic weapons, ammunition, a kilo in gold and 250,000 euros in metallic. He delivered without opposing resistance, but he had time to send a message to one of his fugitive companions: ‘They have caught me’.
Residual solidarity
“All this is exaggerated,” said one of the accredited journalists to follow the process, in the front row of the thirty positions assigned to the media of the media Celle audiencethe city of Baja Saxony where the trial was opened last Tuesday. He referred to the huge security devices that wrap the trial. The defendant and her three lawyers are isolated in her ‘showcase’ of armored crystals. The current public, such as the thirty representatives of the press and a couple of foreign media, including the newspaper, is after a second armored glass wall. He caught the attention that the theoretical journalist to which security measures seem exaggerated to cross a friendly greeting with Klette. The defendant had entered her showcase between solidarity hugs with her lawyers, plus the greeting greetings to the ‘journalist’.
It’s about Karl-Heinz Dellwoas the weekly ‘Der Spiegel’ identified. A former terrorista of the RAF Court and condemned by the attack and hostage with two dead in the German Embassy of Stockholm, in 1975, in freedom since 1995. That he managed to accredit himself as a journalist, when there are supposedly huge security measures, he is one of the enigmas of the process. Before overcoming the access controls, Dellwo and the news of the diary of the radical left ‘Junge Welt’ Ariane Müller, they had joined the concentration of solidarity with Klette.
It was just thirty supporters who have approached Celle, a city of 78,000 inhabitants of Low Saxony and 150 kilometers from the Women’s Prison where the defendant is being held. They exhibit their banners asking for ‘International Solidarity’ and chanting extinct punk bands such as the RAF, where the police are qualified as ‘murder’. It is a protest as noisy as residual.
“They had access to the weapons of the RAF, They were trained in their handling, threatened them and made them fear for employees or ATMs, including a pregnant woman. At least one occasion they triggered to kill on one of them, ”he explains in a separate one with the media Stephen Hörnig, part of the private accusation. Represents the driver of a transport of money against which the trio shots were directed in one of his robberies. Allegedly Klette was behind the wheel of the car used by the group.
The cover of collective authorship
For Celle’s trial, a fifty views are foreseen all this year. This process must follow another, related to its previous existence as a member of the RAF. There you must answer for a Attack against Deutsche Bank In 1990, against the United States Embassy in Bonn of 1991 and against a prison, in 1993. They are minor cases, like all of the already agonizing third generation of the RAF. “It is a shame for the rule of law that follows without clarifying the authorship of the Murders of ‘German Autumn’”, Says the columist of the conservative newspaper ‘Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung’, Reinhard Müller. It refers to the murders of the most deadly stage of the terrorist band, between October and November 1977.
Among the victims of the RAF there were representatives of the business world, such as the Attorney General Siegfried Bubakthe head of the employer HANDS MARTIN SLAYERY and the president of Deutsche Bank, Alfred Herrhausen. Some remain without clarifying, due to the ‘code of conduct’ of the band that considered all its attacks as a collective act. Klette’s strategy consists of victimism and denouncing as ‘harassment’ the police persecution of his 30 years as ‘Claudia’. The police launched against them ‘reward hunters’, he says. Follow the search for the two fugitives from the trio to which she belonged, already ‘retired’ of the RAF.
