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Former Red Army Faction militant Daniela Klette was sentenced to 13 years in prison for armed robbery after the terrorist network was dismantled.
A German court has sentenced Daniela Klette, a former member of the Red Army Faction, also known as the Baader-Meinhof group, to 13 years in prison for armed robberies committed over three decades while hiding from the public eye.
Germany's most wanted woman was the last female member of the far-left terror network still on the run before her arrest at her home in Berlin in February 2024. After a 14-month trial under tight security, the regional court in Verden found her guilty of six counts of aggravated robbery in connection with kidnapping for ransom and possession of military weapons.
The 67-year-old was convicted of robberies committed between 1999 and 2016 after the dissolution of the RAF, which were intended to fund the lives of fugitives left in hiding.
"They carried out their robberies with a division of labor and in a very conspiratorial manner ," said presiding judge Lars Engelke.
As the court announced the guilty verdict, Klette listened indifferently as a commotion erupted in the public gallery, local media reported. Supporters booed the judges and chanted "freedom for Daniela." A group of supporters gathered outside the courtroom earlier in the day, holding signs saying solidarity with Daniela.
Prosecutors also accuse Klette of three politically motivated attacks in the 1990s, while the RAF was still active, but those charges are being dealt with in separate proceedings in Frankfurt. She can no longer be tried for membership in a terrorist organisation, as the statute of limitations on that charge expired in 2018, 20 years after the group disbanded.
Under a false name, Klette was deeply involved in a Brazilian cultural center in Berlin for several years, where she practiced capoeira, an Afro-Brazilian martial art that combines dance and fighting. It is believed that the discovery of photos of her with her capoeira group at the annual Berlin Carnival of Cultures led to her identification and arrest.
The RAF, also known as the Baader-Meinhof gang after its founding members, Andreas Baader and Ulrike Meinhof, was behind a campaign of terror in what was then West Germany in the 1970s and 1980s, including attacks, kidnappings, bomb blasts and murders.
The radical anti-capitalist group took up arms against what they saw as American imperialism and a “fascist” German state still filled with former Nazis. It is believed to be responsible for the killing of at least 30 people and the wounding of 200 others.
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