Mockery about the "third generation" - Ex-RAF terrorist takes issue with Klette and Garweg: "Not revolutionary, just sad"
Silke Maier-Witt was once involved in the brutal kidnapping of employers' president Hanns Martin Schleyer by the "Red Army Faction" (RAF). She has nothing but scorn for the recently arrested Daniela Klette and the fugitive Burkhard Garweg.
They fought against capitalism with terror and violence. But former RAF terrorist Silke Maier-Witt has strongly condemned the alleged actions of Daniela Klette .
Former RAF terrorist on Klette and Garweg: “Pensioners who attack and traumatize people”Klette and Burkhard Garweg - also once members of the RAF - are "pensioners who financed their living by attacking and traumatizing people," said Maier-Witt in an interview with "Stern". "That's not revolutionary. It's just sad."
Maier-Witt was involved in the kidnapping of the employers' president Hanns Martin Schleyer in 1977 and is considered a member of the so-called second generation of the "Red Army Faction". Klette and Garweg are assigned to the third generation. A year ago, Klette was arrested in Berlin and is accused of several robberies, illegal possession of weapons and attempted murder. The trial against her begins at the end of March at the Verden Regional Court.
According to investigators, Garweg, who is still in hiding, was most recently living on a trailer park in Berlin. In a "letter from illegality," he recently linked himself and Klette to the global struggles against capitalism, the climate crisis, patriarchy and racism. When asked about this, Maier-Witt told "stern": "Garweg with his trailer stories on a stage with the great revolutionaries! That's funny again, isn't it?"
Maier-Witt said of her own time in the left-wing extremist terrorist group that the RAF had ultimately become nothing but "perfected killing". After Schleyer's murder , she read that he had been killed with a shot in the back of the neck. "Then I thought: these are SS methods, so that's where you've arrived now. That's the bitter part: we wanted to do everything differently - but in the end we were like the SS."
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