Germany has charged Klette, a Red Army Faction criminal, with attempted murder

Daniela Klette has been charged with robbery, attempted murder, and having a gun. She is thought to be one of the last members of the Red Army Faction group that terrorized Germany in the 1970s.

Klette was caught in Berlin in February after being on the run for decades. He and two other people are accused of stealing more than 2.7 million euros in cash from supermarkets and money transport cars between 1999 and 2016.

Prosecutors in Verden said Monday that she is accused of pointing a gun at someone she was trying to rob during a raid in Stuhr in 2015.

On public TV, her lawyer said, “It’s still being said that she purposely aimed at and shot the driver of a money transport, which has been disproved by the investigation itself.”

When Klette, 66, was caught in February, the state’s justice minister said that all three suspects were from the “third generation” of the Red Army Faction.

The violent left-wing group grew out of Germany’s protests against the Vietnam War. In the 1970s and 1980s, they killed 30 people, including German politicians, businessmen, and U.S. troops.

The three people are thought to have gone on a crime spree after the group officially broke up in 1998.

Police in Verden said in a statement that they thought she formed the gang with the other two suspects, who are still on the run, “to make sure she had a steady stream of income from attacks on cash offices and money transports.”

Now it’s up to the Verden district court to decide if Klette should be charged and put on trial.