Ex-RAF Member Daniela Klette Faces Trial for Alleged Robberies and Murder Attempt

The 66-year-old is accused of planning armed robberies from rented apartments in Bremen and faces charges including attempted murder and illegal possession of firearms.

• Daniela Klette, a former member of the Red Army Faction (RAF), is set to stand trial at the Landgericht Verden in the coming weeks.
• Prosecutors allege Klette rented apartments in Bremen under false names to plan armed robberies on cash transport vehicles and supermarkets between 1999 and 2016.
• Klette and her two alleged accomplices, Burkhard Garweg and Ernst-Volker Staub, are accused of carrying out 13 armed robberies, stealing over €2.7 million to sustain their lives underground.
• One of the robberies, in Stuhr in 2015, involved gunfire but no money was stolen; Klette faces an attempted murder charge for her alleged role.
• Klette was arrested in February 2024 in Berlin, where she had been living under a false identity, while her two alleged accomplices remain fugitives.

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