Daniela Klette

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Daniela Klette
Born
Daniela Marie Luise Klette

(1958-11-05) 5 November 1958 (age 65)
Karlsruhe, West Germany
OrganizationRed Army Faction

Daniela Marie Luise Klette (born 5 November 1958) is a German left-wing militant. She is a suspected former German

terrorist associated with the third generation Red Army Faction
(RAF). She went underground in the 1990s and was arrested in February 2024.

Early life

Daniela Marie Luise Klette was born on 5 November 1958 in Karlsruhe, West Germany.[1][2]

Activism

Klette was active in left-wing groups from 1975 onward. These groups included the Anti-NATO movement and initiatives against the construction of Runway 18 West at Frankfurt Airport.[3]

Klette is an alleged member of the third generation Red Army Faction active during the 1980s and 1990s.[4][5] [6] Klette is suspect in the 1991 United States embassy sniper attack in Bonn and the 1993 explosives attack against Weiterstadt prison under construction in the state of Hesse.[7]

In the 1990s, Klette went underground.[8] In 1999, Klette, Garweg, and Staub were suspected of robbing DM 1 million from an armoured vehicle in Duisburg.[9]

Referred to by the press as "RAF pensioners",

Bochum-Wattenscheid (27/12/2006), Wolfsburg (28/12/2015), Cremlingen (25/06/2016) and Stuhr (06/06/2015). The German public prosecutor's office had been investigating the three since 2015 for attempted murder and various attempted and completed aggravated robberies between 1999 and 2016.[11] In 2016, three Germans matching their description were mistakenly arrested by Dutch police after renting a farmhouse near Medemblik in the north of the Netherlands.[12]
The
Burkhard Garweg and Ernst-Volker Staub, offering a reward of 150,000 euros.[2]
Police found her after a tip-off from the public in November 2023.

As of February 2024 it was unclear how she managed to stay underground for 30 years.[10]

Arrest

On 26 February 2024, Klette was arrested in

Burkhard Garweg and Ernst-Volker Staub were also alleged to have been involved.[13]

Daniela Klette lived at Sebastianstrasse 73, on the fifth floor, under the assumed name Claudia Ivone and an italian passport.[4][14] She also had a Facebook account.[15][16]

It was pointed out that her photo as "Claudia Ivone"

face biometrics software PimEyes[20][21] for the Legion: Most Wanted podcast.[22][23] It was claimed that it was illegal for police to use this kind of software in their investigations.[24]

Investigation

Daniela Klette has made no statements about the allegations made against her or about the RAF comrades.[25]

Media coverage

The arrest of Daniela Klette was headline news in all German media outlets for days.

The Lower Saxony authorities gave a live press conference announcing the arrest of the former terrorist, who had been wanted for 30 years. Lower Saxony's Interior Minister Daniela Behrens (SPD) spoke of a "milestone" in German crime history. The head of the LKA Lower Saxony called the arrest a “masterpiece”.[26]

According to historian Petra Terhoeven, the reporting had boulevard-esque features. The Tagesspiegel described in detail the ordinary furnishings of Klette's one-room apartment.[27]

References

  1. ^ "Daniela Marie Luise Klette". Open Sanctions. Archived from the original on 19 January 2022.
  2. ^ a b "Public appeal for information relating to the location of Daniela Klette" (PDF). Bundeskriminalamt. n.d. Archived from the original (PDF) on 14 February 2024.
  3. ^ Alexander Straßner: Die dritte Generation der "Roten Armee Fraktion": Entstehung, Struktur, Funktionslogik und Zerfall einer terroristischen Organisation. Westdeutscher Verlag, Wiesbaden 2003, S. 108.
  4. ^
    AP News
    . 27 February 2024. Retrieved 27 February 2024.
  5. ^ "Far-left RAF terror suspect Daniela Klette arrested". Deutsche Welle. 27 February 2024. Retrieved 27 February 2024.
  6. ^ France-Presse, Agence (26 July 2016). "German Red Army Faction trio wanted by Dutch police". The Guardian.
  7. ^ Alexander Straßner: Die dritte Generation der „Roten Armee Fraktion": Entstehung, Struktur, Funktionslogik und Zerfall einer terroristischen Organisation. Westdeutscher Verlag, Wiesbaden 2003, S. 142.
  8. ^ deutschlandfunkkultur.de (20 January 2016). "Fahndung nach mutmaßlichen Terroristen - "Die dritte RAF-Generation ist komplett gescheitert"". Deutschlandfunk Kultur (in German). Retrieved 4 March 2024.
  9. ISBN 978-1-60486-029-0
    .
  10. ^ a b "Daniela Klette: Alleged Red Army Faction member held after 30 years". BBC. 27 February 2024. Retrieved 4 March 2024.
  11. ^ "BKA - Fahndungen RAF Übersicht - Fahndung nach KLETTE, Daniela".
  12. Irish Times
    . Retrieved 27 February 2024.
  13. SBS News
    . 27 February 2024. Retrieved 28 February 2024.
  14. ^ "Was über die Suche nach den früheren RAF-Mitgliedern bislang bekannt ist". www.rbb24.de (in German). 5 March 2024. Retrieved 5 March 2024.
  15. ^ "Staatsanwaltschaft - Frühere RAF-Terroristin Daniela Klette in Berlin festgenommen".
  16. ^ "Red Army Faction militant arrested in Germany after decades on run". The Guardian. 27 February 2024. Retrieved 27 February 2024.
  17. ISSN 0362-4331
    . Retrieved 2 March 2024.
  18. Bild-Zeitung
    (in German). 28 February 2024. Retrieved 28 February 2024.
  19. ^ ""Scheinbar hat Klette ganz normal ihr Leben gelebt"". Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg (in German). 28 February 2024. Retrieved 28 February 2024.
  20. ^ Higgins, Eliot (28 February 2024). "Eliot Higgins (@EliotHiggins): Somewhat bizarrely his happened after Bellingcat's @ColborneMichael discussed matching a suspected recent photo of Klette using PimEye's to Klette older photos on a podcast, leading the police to follow up the match". Twitter. Event occurs at 10:10. Somewhat bizarrely his happened after Bellingcat's @ColborneMichael discussed matching a suspected recent photo of Klette using PimEye's to Klette older photos on a podcast, leading the police to follow up the match
  21. ISSN 0044-2070
    . Retrieved 28 February 2024.
  22. ^ Behroz, Khesrau [in German]. "Most Wanted: Wo ist RAF-Terroristin Daniela Klette? Monika (1/2)" [Most Wanted: Where is RAF terrorist Daniela Klette? Monika (1/2)] (PDF). Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg (in German). Retrieved 29 February 2024.. In this episode Colborne is introduced to the listeners as a Bellingcat employee investigating far-right extremism and having expertise in face biometrics. Colborne matches face of the first suspect "Monika" to the face of Klette using the software by Amazon, and gives his opinion about the result that there is no match. Then it is said that using another software they have managed to find another suspect in Berlin.
  23. ^ Behroz, Khesrau [in German]. "Most Wanted: Wo ist RAF-Terroristin Daniela Klette? Felizia (2/2)" [Most Wanted: Where is RAF terrorist Daniela Klette? Felicia (2/2)] (PDF). Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg (in German). Retrieved 29 February 2024. In the episode Colborne describes the purpose of another biometric software which searches for images in the Internet having faces similar to a certain one, his use of the software, their discovery of dozens of photos of a female they nickname as "Felicia" in a Berlin capoiera club, his opinion about how much the face on the photos match the one on Klette's photo ("strongly suspect that these two individuals are the same person"), their analysis of photos on Facebook page of the club chairman, which was sharing photos and videos of the club's dance lessons there, presence of "Felicia" in some of them, and their visit to the club and observation of the photos of "Felicia" there too, and their interview to the club employee mentioning that "Felicia" has not been seen in the club for some years.
  24. ISSN 0261-3077
    . Retrieved 4 March 2024. The police are prohibited by strict privacy laws from using similar face comparison tools, instead relying on an artist's impression of how Klette might have looked aged 65.
  25. ISSN 2195-1349
    . Retrieved 6 March 2024.
  26. ^ NACHRICHTEN, n-tv. "Ermittler nennen Klette-Festnahme "Meisterstück"". n-tv.de (in German). Retrieved 13 March 2024.
  27. ^ Übermedien (9 March 2024). "Verkulten Medien die RAF immer noch?". Übermedien (in German). Retrieved 13 March 2024.
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