Germany’s most-wanted woman was sentenced after over three decades on the run.
Daniela Klette, a former member of the far-left German militant group Red Army Faction, was found guilty of aggravated robbery, breaking weapons regulations, and other charges, the BBC reported on Wednesday, May 27.
The 67-year-old committed her offenses during a 17-year span, from 1999 to 2016, according to the publication. She was apprehended in February 2024 while residing in Berlin under the alias Claudia and with a foreign passport.
A judge condemned Klette to 13 years in prison for her offenses. Her suspected accomplices, Burkhard Garweg and Ernst-Volker Staub, have yet to be apprehended.
“They carried out their robberies with a division of labor and in a highly conspiratorial manner,” Judge Lars Engelke told The Guardian.
During her arrest, officers discovered a variety of wigs, fake documents, guns, and more than $250,000 in cash in her apartment.
Her alleged crimes as a member of the now-defunct RAF, which included three politically motivated attacks, will not be prosecuted because the statute of limitations has expired. Counter Extremism Project head Hans-Jakob Schindler told the BBC.
Schindler described Klette as “a kind of grandmother heroine for the extreme left in Berlin.”
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