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Former German RAF terrorist Daniela Klette is unlikely to be released from prison any time soon. Even though there is a change in the ongoing pre-trial detention as a result of an arrest warrant from the Verden court, an arrest warrant from the Federal Public Prosecutor’s Office from 2018 is also in force since Thursday.

An investigating judge at the Federal Court of Justice in Karlsruhe issued this arrest warrant against Klette on Thursday and took him into custody, the federal prosecutor’s office said. This is what it is called when someone is already in custody or in custody and another warrant is issued for their arrest. This initially had no concrete consequences: after the appointment in her hometown of Karlsruhe, the 65-year-old was returned to Lower Saxony by helicopter.

The suspect is strongly suspected of attempted murder in two cases and of attempted and completed explosive explosions in complicity in three RAF attacks between February 1990 and March 1993, according to a statement from Germany’s highest prosecutorial authority. According to a spokeswoman, membership of the terrorist organization Red Army Faction (RAF) itself has now expired.

Participated in three RAF raids

According to the Federal Public Prosecution Service, Klette and other RAF members as the “Fighting Unit Febe Elisabeth” tried to cause an explosive explosion in the administration building of the Deutsche Bank in Eschborn, near Frankfurt, on February 25, 1990. Members of the command had parked a car near the gate entrance with 45.05 kilograms of explosives in the trunk. “In the event of an explosion, the pressure wave would have hit the security room in the entrance of the building, where three Deutsche Bank AG security officers were staying at the time,” the report said. The only reason an explosion didn’t occur was because the detonator failed.

On February 13, 1991, Klette and other RAF members allegedly carried out a gun attack on the American embassy in Bonn-Bad Godesberg as “Commando Vincenzo Spano”. At least 250 shots were fired at the building with automatic long guns and 65 projectiles hit the embassy. There were at least ten people in the part of the building that was in immediate danger.

According to information, on March 27, 1993, the RAF commando “Katharina Hammerschmidt” carried out an explosive attack on the newly built prison in Weiterstadt near Darmstadt, which was not yet occupied by prisoners. According to the statement, in addition to Klette, the command also included wanted former RAF terrorists Ernst-Volker Staub and Burkhard Garweg. Commando members climbed over the prison wall, overpowered the guards and some candidates for the prison service and took them away from the prison grounds in a van. The explosion of several explosives in the prison caused damage worth 123 million German marks.

No transfer of the studies in Lower Saxony

Klette was arrested in Berlin at the end of February after more than thirty years underground. The proceedings of the Public Prosecution Service of Verden are also directed against Staub and Garweg. This concerns suspicions of attempted murder and serious robberies from 1999 to 2016 – so after the dissolution of the RAF. “According to the constitutional division of powers between the federal and state governments, the Federal Public Prosecutor’s Office would not be able to take over the investigation into this,” the Karlsruhe authority explained. (saw/sda/dpa)