By Thomas Escritt
BERLIN (Reuters) – Prosecutors have charged Daniela Klette, accused of being one of many final surviving members of the Purple Military Faction group that terrorised Germany from the Seventies, with theft, tried homicide and possession of a firearm.
Klette, who was arrested in Berlin in February after a long time on the run, is accused with two accomplices of stealing greater than 2.7 million euros in money via raids on cash transport autos and supermarkets between 1999 and 2016.
On one event, throughout a 2015 raid in Stuhr, she is accused of coaching a gun on the particular person she was making an attempt to take cash from, Verden prosecutors mentioned on Monday (NASDAQ:).
Her lawyer solid doubt on the costs, telling public TV: “It’s still being claimed that she deliberately aimed at and shot the driver of a money transport, something which has been disproved by the investigation itself.”
The justice minister for Decrease Saxony state mentioned when Klette, 66, was arrested in February that every one three suspects belonged to the so-called third era of the Purple Military Faction.
The left-wing militant group sprang out of Germany’s anti-Vietnam struggle protests and killed some 30 individuals – German politicians and businessmen and U.S. troopers – in the course of the Seventies and Eighties.
The trio’s suspected crime spree got here after the group formally wound itself up in 1998.
Verden prosecutors mentioned in a press release she was believed to have shaped the gang with the opposite two suspects, who stay at massive, “to secure herself a steady income stream from attacks on cash offices and money transports”.
The Verden district court docket should now resolve whether or not to confess the costs and take Klette to trial.
