Deeds of the third Generation in focus : still 20 proceedings against RAF

The U.S. attorney on the investigation into the attacks of the Red army faction (RAF), even if the acts date back decades. "We are currently in 20 the investigation process by the deeds of the RAF," said attorney General Peter Frank to the daily mirror.

the focus of the attacks of the "third Generation". The RAF are meant to be terrorists that perpetrated from the beginning of the 1980s, to terrorist attacks and other crimes. The extreme left-wing terrorist organization had been founded in 1970, in 1998, they announced their resolution. Multiple attacks are not clarified until today.

This relates to, among other things, the assassination of Alfred Herrhausen and Detlev Karsten Rohwedder, said the attorney General. Herrhausen Board spokesman of Deutsche Bank, in November 1989 he died in Bad Homburg in a bomb attack by the RAF. In April 1991, Rohwedder was shot in his house in Düsseldorf, of at least one terrorist through a window. Rohwedder headed the institution, the fiduciary, the former East German enterprises privatized. In both attacks, the perpetrators were not identified.

Frank warns of further radicalisation in the right-wing extremism

After four still-volatile RAF-members of the Federal hunting advocacy with a warrant. Attorney General Frank called Friederike Krabbe, Daniela Klette, Burkhard Garweg and Ernst Volker Staub. Crab is suspected to have, in the case of the kidnapping and murder of employer President Hanns-Martin Schleyer in the autumn of 1977, a conspiratorial apartment available for rent. Burdock, Garweg and dust are supposed to have destroyed, among other things, in March 1993, a bombing in the not related to the construction of the JVA Weiterstadt (Hesse). Three of these RAF people have robbery possibly committed in the past few years, raids in the North of Germany, in order to get money.

Frank also warned against a further radicalisation of right-wing extremism. In Germany, violent groups, "which are well networked and its members are quickly able to mobilize". As the hardest example he called the "Revolution Chemnitz". This is the case for the U.S. attorney's office in the area of legal terrorism, "one of the most important procedures we perform at present". The terrorist group had formed after the racist riots in the late summer in Chemnitz and planning to perpetrate to the anniversary of the reunification of a stop. Eight alleged members in detention.

Peter Frank (50) since the October 2015 Federal Prosecutor General at the Federal court of justice.Photo: Federico Gambarini/dpa

Islamist Terror remains for the office of the attorney General is also a focus of the investigation. "The two major terrorist organizations of ISIS and Al Qaeda, to call again and again to attacks in Europe," said Frank. In order for Germany to stay "one of the terrorist targets".

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The Federal Prosecutor's office is currently conducting approximately 250 proceedings against Islamist terror suspects. This year alone, already 100 procedures had been initiated, said Frank. In addition, the Federal government have a bar against a third of the German jihadists, which are located in the North-East of Syria in the custody of the Kurds, warrants. Not hot but, the other held there German jihadists need to fear a return to the Federal Republic, no law enforcement, said the attorney General.