Daniela Burdockmember of the third generation of the Red Army Fraction (RAF)has been sentenced to 13 years in prison for robberies committed after the dissolution of the terrorist gang founded by Ulrike Meinhof and Andreas Baader. The accused, 67 years old, heard the sentence amid cheers of solidarity from those attending the trial, in accordance with the tone set throughout the process. The audience in Celle, in the north of the country, declared her guilty of six armed robberiesviolation of the laws of armas y kidnapping. His alleged involvement in the RAF crimes has not played any role in his trial, the judge explained.
The trial against Klette has been covered with notable media impact. The accused was arrested in 2024, after more than 30 years on search and capture lists. He led a quiet life in Berlin, as a cover for a succession of robberies of banks, supermarkets and armored money transports. He formed a criminal trio with two other former members of the terrorist group, Burkhard Garweg and Ernst-Volker Staub, who remain at large despite the intense police search. The series of robberies It starts in 1999, a year after the dissolution of the RAF, and extends until 2016. His loot is estimated at around 2.7 million euros. They were robberies with extreme violence, which in at least one case were accompanied by shootings with sworn guards.
Klette fell into the hands of the police in February 2024. He surrendered without resistance when the police knocked on the door of his home in the Berlin neighborhood of Kreuzberg. To her neighbors she was ‘Claudia’, a quiet woman who lived with her dog, gave private math classes and was a member of a Brazilian dance group. She fell after being identified by a journalistic investigation group that recognized her face among a group of dancers at a multicultural street carnival. Automatic weapons, ammunition, a kilo of gold and cash were found in his home.
RAF attack
The trial for the robberies has run in parallel with the proceedings against Klette for an RAF attack against the Deutsche Bank committed in 1990 and against the US embassy in Bonn, a year later, among others. They are minor cases among the group of RAF murders, a anti-capitalist terrorist organization founded in 1971. Among the thirty RAF fatalities was the attorney general Siegfried Bubakthe boss of the employer Hans Martin Schleyer and that of Deutsche Bank Alfred Herrhausen. The authorship of many of their murders is still unknown, since the gang considered them “collective acts.”
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