By Thomas Escritt
BERLIN (Reuters) – Prosecutors have charged Daniela Klette, accused of being one of the last surviving members of the Red Army Faction group that terrorized Germany since the 1970s, with robbery, attempted murder and possession of a firearm. fire.
Klette, who was arrested in Berlin in February after decades on the run, is accused, along with two accomplices, of stealing more than €2.7 million in cash through raids on cash vehicles and supermarkets between 1999 and 2016.
On one occasion, during a raid in Stuhr in 2015, she was accused of pointing a gun at the person she was trying to take money from, Verden prosecutors said in Monday (NASDAQ:).
Her lawyer questioned the charges and told public television: “It is still alleged that she deliberately targeted and shot the driver of a money transport, something that has been denied by the investigation itself.”
The Justice Minister of the state of Lower Saxony said when Klette, 66, was arrested in February that the three suspects belonged to the so-called third generation of the Red Army Faction.
The left-wing militant group emerged from anti-Vietnam War protests in Germany and killed about 30 people (German politicians and businessmen and American soldiers) during the 1970s and 1980s.
The trio’s alleged crime spree came after the group formally disbanded in 1998.
Verden’s prosecutors said in a statement that she was believed to have formed the gang with the other two suspects, who remain at large, “to ensure a constant flow of income thanks to attacks on cash offices and the transport of money.” .
The Verden district court must now decide whether to admit the charges and take Klette to trial.