Former RAF terrorist: Videos with Burkhard Garweg surfaced

Investigators in Lower Saxony have secured two videos in which the wanted ex-RAF terrorist Burkhard Garweg appears. The Lower Saxony State Office of Criminal Investigation (LKA) will publish excerpts from them this week.

With the new recordings, the State Criminal Police Office will increase the pressure on the manhunt for the RAF terrorist Burkhard Garweg. The investigators are hoping for new clues.

The first video “very likely” came from Berlin, said an LKA spokesman. Investigators believe the screenshots are from a recording in Hildesheim. The police initially did not want to say when the recordings were made. The LKA spokesman referred to the planned publication.

It was also not initially known where exactly the recordings came from. The “Spiegel” newspaper reported that the recordings had been secured after the arrest of RAF terrorist Daniela Klette. According to “Spiegel”, Garweg’s voice can also be heard in the video.

Manhunt for former RAF terrorists has been going on for years

Since 2015, the Verden public prosecutor’s office has been investigating Daniela Klette, Ernst-Volker Staub and Burkhard Garweg for attempted murder and attempted and completed aggravated robbery in several cases. Klette was arrested in Berlin-Kreuzberg at the end of February.

The three belonged to the so-called third generation of the left-wing extremist Red Army Faction (RAF). In 1998, the RAF, which killed more than 30 people, declared itself disbanded. At the beginning of July, investigators also used new photos to search for the former RAF terrorist Staub.

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The Federal Criminal Police Office was searching for Garweg using, among other things, a photo that was found in Klette’s apartment and shows him with two dogs. The investigators were already hot on the 56-year-old’s heels. Shortly after Klette’s arrest, they confiscated the trailer in Berlin-Friedrichshain in which Garweg had lived under the cover name Martin during the investigation.

In recent months, people who were thought to be Garweg or Staub have been checked several times. (mp)