Daniela Klette, a former member of the Red Army Faction (RAF), has been sentenced to 13 years in prison for armed robberies. The Verden Regional Court found her guilty, among other charges, of particularly severe robbery in several cases.
Klette was apprehended in 2024 as one of only three remaining fugitives connected to the RAF. She had gone underground around the turn of 1989/1990 and was eventually caught in an apartment in the Kreuzberg district of Berlin, where she is believed to have lived under an alias for approximately two decades. Alongside her alleged accomplices, Burkhard Garweg and Ernst-Volker Staub, she is suspected of robbing money transporters and supermarkets across Lower Saxony and North Rhine-Westphalia between 1999 and 2016. Law enforcement agencies continue to search for Garweg and Staub.
The trial attracted considerable public attention. Support for Klette was voiced by numerous groups within the left-wing scene, and protests took place in front of the provisional courtroom in a riding hall in Verden on Wednesday.
The court’s decision was slightly below the request of the public prosecutor, who had demanded a sentence of 15 years. Conversely, the defense had argued for an acquittal, pushing only for sentencing related to illegal weapons possession.
