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May 4, 2020 | The Jerusalem Post
Three German left-wing terrorists on Europe’s most wanted list
Red Army Faction cooperated with Palestinian terrorist entities.
May 4, 2020 | The Jerusalem Post
Three German left-wing terrorists on Europe’s most wanted list
Red Army Faction cooperated with Palestinian terrorist entities.
Germany has listed three left-wing terrorists from the Red Army Faction on the European police’s most-wanted list.
Europol, the EU’s Agency for Law Enforcement Cooperation, tweeted on Monday that, “Germany has joined Europe’s Most Wanted list today! They are looking for 3 former suspected members of Rote Armee Fraktion (RAF). Maybe you can help locate these fugitives on http://eumostwanted.eu? Germany is the 26th EU Member State to join this Flag of European Union crowdsourcing initiative.”
Germany has joined Europe’s #MostWanted list today! They are looking for 3 former suspected members of Rote Armee Fraktion (RAF). Maybe you can help locate these fugitives on https://t.co/R12smSgx6C? Germany is the 26th EU Member State to join this 🇪🇺 #crowdsourcing initiative. https://t.co/qhZ3XHTiWi
— Europol (@Europol) May 4, 2020
The three terrorist are members of the so-called “third generation” of the Red Army Faction (RAF), also known as the Baader–Meinhof Group. The suspects Daniela Klette, Ernst-Volker Wilhelm Staub and Burkhard Garweg are wanted for numerous murders, including head of the Deutsche Bank Alfred Herrhausen.
The three RAF members are also accused of the robberies of an armored car and supermarkets. They disappeared at the end of the 1980s.
The faction was permeated with deadly antisemitism targeting Israel and Jews. “Auschwitz… meant that six million Jews were killed and thrown on the waste-heap of Europe, for what they were considered: money-Jews,“ said Ulrike Meinhof, a co-founder of the organization.
The RAF also cooperated with armed Palestinian terrorist entities.
Writing for the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, Michael Whine noted that, “Members of both the German neo-Nazi Wehrsportgruppe Hoffmann and the leftist Red Army Faction were trained by Fatah; Italian neo-Nazis were invited to Iran for training after the Islamic Revolution; and, as noted, members of the Red Army Faction and the PFLP cooperated in the 1976 Air France hijacking that ended at Entebbe.”
The EU and the US have designated the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine a terrorist organization.