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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Deborah Cole in Berlin

Germany’s most wanted woman jailed after three decades evading police

Daniela Klette: she is 67 with long, straight grey hair tied back from her face. She wears a blue top and looks defiantly into the camera.
Daniela Klette had been the last female member of the Red Army Faction (also known as the Baader-Meinhof group) still at large. Photograph: Sina Schuldt/AFP/Getty Images

A German court has sentenced Daniela Klette, a former member of the Red Army Faction, also known as the Baader-Meinhof group, to 13 years in jail for armed robberies committed during three decades hiding in plain sight.

Long Germany’s most-wanted woman, Klette was the last female member of the far-left terrorist network still on the run before her arrest at her home in Berlin in February 2024.

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