There has been no trace of three former RAF terrorists for thirty years. They are said to be responsible for murder and serious robberies. The researchers hope to find new leads through a public appeal in “File number XY” – before the ZDF broadcast started on Wednesday evening, 52 tips had been received. The police are offering a reward of 80,000 euros for relevant information.
The suspects Ernst-Volker Staub, Daniela Marie Luise Klette and Burkhard Garweg went into hiding in the 1990s. DNA evidence led investigators to conclude that the three could be responsible for cash-in-transit and supermarket robberies between 1999 and 2016.
Maximum 80,000 euros for information
A new search in the popular ZDF program “Aktenzeichen XY … unresolved” aims to revive the investigation. It publishes old photos of the “RAF retirees”, as they are called by some German media. “These could be your neighbors too!” warns the Lower Saxony police on a wanted poster. “They have been living illegally for almost thirty years, possibly in the same place for a very long time, and it is unlikely that they will have regular work,” the police suspect. She is offering a reward of up to 80,000 euros for information.
DNA evidence led investigators to conclude that the three could be responsible for cash-in-transit and supermarket robberies between 1999 and 2016.
The police fear more robberies
Crime scenes included Wolfsburg, Cremlingen and Stuhr in Lower Saxony, as well as Bochum-Wattenscheid and Essen in North Rhine-Westphalia. The Verden Public Prosecutor’s Office assumes that the robberies were not politically motivated, but that the three used them to finance their underground livelihood, making further crimes possible. The ZDF program “Aktenzeichen XY … unsolved” will be broadcast on Wednesday at 8:15 p.m. The serious consequences of the crimes for the victims should also be discussed.
Staub, Garweg and Burdock are considered part of the so-called third generation of the left-wing extremist RAF. The terrorist organization was disbanded in 1998. The third generation RAF is accused, among other things, of the murder of Deutsche Bank boss Alfred Herrhausen in 1989 and Treuhand boss Detlev Karsten Rohwedder in 1991.
Source: Krone
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