Former RAF terrorist
Clever defense fails with several applications
The lawyers wanted to burst the trial against ex-RAF terrorist Daniela Klette or at least delay. However, the court sees no basis for this.
In the trial of the former RAF terrorist Daniela Klette, the district court in Verden rejected an attitude of the proceedings. “The chamber leads the process in accordance with the right,” emphasized judge Jens Niemeyer. The defense had made a corresponding application because in her view, no fair, rule of law process is possible for robberies against the 66-year-old.
On the second day of the trial, all eyes were again on the accused, who had previously lived in the underground for decades. With a black sweater and dark blue jeans dressed, Klette entered the courtroom, greeted her lawyers and looked curiously into the auditorium. There, the former RAF terrorist Karl-Heinz Dellwo also waved to her, who was in prison in Celle for a long time and was approved as a journalist for the process. Both separate two glass panes, one of the safety measures.
Special treatment or caution?
The lawyers criticize that the extent of the security measures only shows signs of terrorist procedure. Among other things, it is not negotiated in Verden, but in the state protection hall of the Celle Higher Regional Court. The defense fears a prejudice of her client.
The public prosecutor rejected the accusation. The security measures are “not a special treatment, but necessary precautionary measures,” said prosecutor Annette Marquardt. After all, there are still two alleged accomplices on the run. There could also be no speech of a prejudice. “This is about crimes that have nothing to do with terrorism.”
Court: Procedure detached from RAF investigations
The public prosecutor accuses Clette of attacking the former RAF terrorists Burkhard Garweg (56) and Ernst-Volker Staub (70) money transporters and supermarkets in Lower Saxony, North Rhine-Westphalia and Schleswig-Holstein. They are said to have captured more than 2.7 million euros for their lives underground.
Regardless of this, the federal prosecutor is investigating attempted murder against Daniela Klette. It deals with attacks by the left -wing terrorist Red Army Group (RAF) from 1990 to 1993. The RAF explained its dissolution in 1998.
Both procedures are “completely detached from each other,” emphasized judge Jens Niemeyer. “The defense was the first to draw references to the RAF at the main hearing.” The court finally rejected the defense’s application.
Defense could have seen files for months
Alternatively, the lawyers had asked to interrupt the process for a long time. Only shortly before the start of the trial, they would have been provided with a hard drive and other data carriers with 18 terabyte data – the scope corresponded to around ten million file folders.
The criminal chamber also rejected this application. Your reasoning: The defense could have taken access to this part of the files in the past ten months – at the State Criminal Police Office (LKA) Lower Saxony. The application for a copy of this data was only made shortly before the start of the process.
Completion remains in custody
Even during the procedure, the defense could still make applications to view data. The court has access to all documents at all times, said judge Fenna Meinke. “Contrary to the view of the defense, the file is complete.” The court also rejected it to provide a AI program used by the police, as this was only an in-house aid.
The so -called acceleration requirement applies to the procedure, the court continued. CLAPTER has been in custody since its arrest in Berlin in February 2024 that the procedure must therefore be negotiated as quickly as possible. The 66-year-old is still under urgent suspicion of the crime and therefore cannot be released from prison. Her lawyers also applied for this – without success.
Receiving evidence could continue to be delayed
The defense does not want to accept it and announced for the next negotiation on April 15 and another request. The taking of evidence could continue to be delayed. Originally, the first witnesses were to be heard on a robbery in Stuhr near Bremen. The case from 2015 is particularly explosive: shots were found in the attack, the public prosecutor also sees the crime as an attempted murder.
dpa
Source: Stern
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