Daniela Klette, a former member of Germany's radical leftist Red Army Faction (RAF), was sentenced to 13 years in prison by a German court on Wednesday for a series of armed robberies committed while she spent 30 years on the run.
The case garnered nationwide attention when Klette was arrested at her Berlin flat in February 2024, where she had lived for years under a different name.
Klette, 67, had gone into hiding by the time the RAF - also known as the Baader–Meinhof Group from its founding members, Andreas Baader and Ulrike Meinhof - disbanded in 1998.
She managed to evade arrest for some 30 years, leading a normal life in Berlin's trendy Kreuzberg neighbourhood, where she reportedly regularly attended capoeira classes, a type of Afro-Brazilian martial arts dance.
Klette went on trial in March 2025, charged with attempted murder, illegal possession of firearms and aggravated robbery, allegedly committed alongside accomplices Burkhard Garweg and Ernst-Volker Staub, two other former RAF members.
Garweg and Staub remain at large, with Klette believed to have tipped off Garweg by text when she was arrested.
The trio is said to have stolen over €2 million ($2.3 milllion) between 1999 and 2016 to finance their life in hiding, robbing cash-in-transit vans and supermarkets in northern and western Germany.
