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Daniela Klette, germany, political prisoners, RAF, Red Army Faction - 13 avril 2025

Daniela Klette: It’s a Settling of Accounts with This Particular History of Resistance

Trial statement at the Verden Regional Court, March 25, 2025. I agree with the defense motion to dismiss. I would, however, like to add a few things. After the RAF [Red Army Faction] ended its urban guerrilla project in April, twenty-seven years ago, Burkhard Garweg, Volker Staub, and I were confronted with the BKA’s ongoing public manhunt for the alleged “last former RAF militants.”[1] In fact, Burkhard Garweg was only dragged into this public manhunt after the RAF had disbanded. The state’s response to the RAF’s self-dissolution was consistent with Bad Kleinen—the shooting of Wolfgang Grams—and the continued heavy sentences...

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