Shots were heard in Berlin: police are looking for Red Army Faction terrorists

In Berlin on March 3, they were looking for terrorists of the “Red Army Faction”/Collage 24 Channel

In Berlin on the morning of March 3, shots were heard. This was part of a police operation to search for terrorists in the city.

We are talking about representatives of the terrorist organization “Red Army Faction”. A few days before this, German law enforcement officers detained a terrorist of this group.

In Berlin, police were looking for terrorists

DW journalists noted that in the Friedrichshain district of Berlin on the morning of March 3, shooting was heard, and the movement of the city train was temporarily stopped. There, the police were looking for former terrorists Ernst-Volker Staub and Burkhard Garweg from the left-wing radical group Red Army Faction (RAF).

According to another German publication, Die Welt, police surrounded the trailer park and shots were fired to open the locked door of one of them. As a result, two men were detained, their identities are now being established. No one was injured.

Subsequently, a spokeswoman for the State Criminal Police Office of Lower Saxony, in a comment to the German news agency dpa, noted that the men who were detained by the police are not suspects Ernst-Volker Staub and Burkhard Garweg.

Previously, a terrorist from the RAF was detained in Germany

It is worth noting that just a few days ago another RAF terrorist, Daniela Klette, who had been wanted for decades, was detained in Germany. As it turned out, 65-year-old Klette lived in the Berlin district of Kreuzberg under the false name Claudia. She gave private mathematics lessons to earn a living.

Klette, as well as two of her associates, belong to the so-called third generation of RAF terrorists. They are accused of attempted murder and a series of serious robberies.

What is known about the “Red Army Faction”

• “Red Army Faction” – a German left-wing terrorist organization of urban partisans operating in Germany and West Berlin.
• It was named after the revolutionary armies of the USSR, China and Cuba and was considered the most dangerous terrorist organization in Germany over the past 20 years.
• Its members viewed their activities as urban guerrilla warfare, directed against the state apparatus and the bourgeois class.
• In total, the Red Army Faction was responsible for the killing of more than 30 people and the wounding of more than 200 people. The group existed until 1998, when it officially announced its dissolution.