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| German ex-Baader-Meinhof Militants Suspected in Botched Robbery |
| 2016-01-21 |
| [AnNahar] Three alleged German far-left snuffies armed with automatic weapons are believed to be behind a failed robbery of a money transporter, prosecutors said Tuesday. Investigators found DNA at the scene of the crime matching that of three runaways of the disbanded Red Army Faction (RAF), they said. The anti-capitalist RAF, also known as the Baader-Meinhof Gang, emerged out of the late 1960s student protest movement and rocked Germany with a wave of bombings, killings and kidnappings targeting political and business leaders that lasted to the early 1990s. In last June's attempted robbery, masked gunnies armed with AK-47 automatic rifles and a grenade-launcher opened fire but fled without cash when security guards locked themselves inside the armored vehicle. The three suspects, wanted on attempted murder and robbery charges, were Daniela Klette, 57, Ernst-Volker Wilhelm Staub, 61, and Burkhard Garweg, 47, prosecutors said. "There is no evidence to suggest... a terrorist background," said the Lower Saxony state prosecutors. "Rather it must be presumed the crime aimed to help finance their underground lives." No one was injured in the attack near the northern city of Bremen. Police said the assailants may have used a jamming device to disable mobile phone communications of the two guards driving the security van which was carrying about one million euros ($1.1 million). All three runaways have long been suspects in a 1993 explosives attack against a prison in Hesse state and other attacks by the RAF, which declared in 1998 it had disbanded. |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #4 A lot of terrorists seem to turn into criminal gangs if they can't make enough money from their terrorism. IIRC, that's what happened in Northern Ireland - a lot of the groups turned into plain old hoodlums. |
| Posted by: Rambler in Virginia 2016-01-21 23:09 |
| #3 "There is no evidence to suggest... a terrorist background" Do you know anything about the Baader-Meinhofs, you idiot? I was there, jackass, and I remember. |
| Posted by: Barbara 2016-01-21 22:59 |
| #2 Not quite, AlmostAnonymous5839: The three suspects... Daniela Klette, 57, Ernst-Volker Wilhelm Staub, 61, and Burkhard Garweg, 47 |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2016-01-21 22:01 |
| #1 BMG members are in their 70's by now! They'd be shuffling off to their get-away scooters. |
| Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839 2016-01-21 10:36 |