Former RAF terrorist: Videos with Burkhard Garweg surfaced

Status: 06.09.2024 13:03

Investigators have secured two videos in which the fugitive ex-RAF terrorist Burkhard Garweg can be seen and heard. The Lower Saxony State Office of Criminal Investigation (LKA) will publish the recordings.

As the State Criminal Police Office confirmed to NDR Lower Saxony on Friday, one of the videos was recorded in an apartment in Hildesheim. Garweg and alleged accomplices are said to have rented it under a false name. Garweg’s voice is said to be heard on a second video. This was recorded in Berlin. Screenshots of the sequence from Hildesheim are to be published. The video sequences were discovered during the evaluation of the evidence room, the State Criminal Police Office told NDR. They came from the Searches that investigators had carried out as part of the search for Garweg and his alleged accomplices Ernst-Volker Staub and the already arrested Daniela Klette. According to the information, the LKA will now start a new public search together with the Verden public prosecutor’s office. Initially, the “Spiegel” on the topic.

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The police are hoping for clues that will lead to Ernst-Volker Staub and Burkhard Garweg, who are still on the run. (July 11, 2024) 1 min

Supermarket robbery in Hildesheim

Garweg is said to have robbed a supermarket in Hildesheim eight years ago, among other places, with Staub and Klebsiella. There are images from a surveillance camera of the robbery in May 2016. The images show the perpetrators covering their faces as they enter the supermarket as customers, breaking into an office and threatening money couriers with a weapon.

Increased search for Garweg

Since the arrest of ex-RAF terrorist Daniela Klette in Berlin at the end of February, the authorities have been increasingly searching for 55-year-old Garweg and 69-year-old Staub. The trio is suspected of having carried out various robberies in Lower Saxony and North Rhine-Westphalia between 1999 and 2016. They belonged to the so-called third generation of the RAF. In 1998, the RAF declared itself disbanded. Its members had killed more than 30 people.

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