Ex-RAF terrorist: High safety precautions before the burdock process

Before the start of the trial against the former RAF terrorist Daniela Klette, numerous emergency services secured the Celle Higher Regional Court. A sniffer dog was also in action, as a dpa reporter reported. In front of the entrances there were judicial officers and police officers with machine guns, police car parked in the area.

Hours before the start of the negotiation, journalists stood in line to get into the building on time for admission. Several spectators also waited in front of the building.

Process for security reasons in Celle

CLAPTER is charged with attempted murder and 13 robberies, the negotiation is before the Verden district court. For security reasons, the process does not begin in the rooms of the regional court, but in the state protection hall of the Celle Higher Regional Court.

The public prosecutor accuses the 66-year-old attempted murder, unauthorized possession of weapons and attempted and completed heavy robbery. Her alleged accomplices, the former RAF members Ernst-Volker Staub (70) and Burkhard Garweg (56), are still on the run.

Between 1999 and 2016, the trio is said to have attacked money transporters and supermarkets in Lower Saxony, North Rhine-Westphalia and Schleswig-Holstein in order to finance his life underground. The gang is said to have captured more than 2.7 million euros.