Daniela Klette: RAF: Bath, bed and books

In the past few days, the media has revealed something incredible about the shameless life of the (suspected) RAF terrorist Daniela Klette, who was tracked down and arrested in Berlin last week: the (suspected) left-wing extremist helped children learn. She also “rode her bike regularly” and “often took her dog with her” (“Tagesspiegel”). In plain language: “The ‘snake’ has ventured out of its burrow again and again” (“Image”). She is said to have secretly baked cookies in her home. What we now know: Right in the center of the capital and in full view of everyone, she did everything she could to conceal until the end that she was a person wanted by the police. By carrying out typical passerby activities such as walking in public and happily and freely cycling, the (suspected) serious criminal deceived the German authorities for decades and gave them an identity that she actually did not have.

Insidious as she was, the (presumed) “RAF grandma” (“Berliner Zeitung”) also occasionally stayed in a bookstore and at times even regularly visited a dance studio, where she appeared “in a baggy look” (“Bild”). practiced the questionable foreign dance “Capoeira”, about which unfortunately not enough is known in Germany to ban it.

But the seemingly harmless dance is not a harmless pastime, as unsuspecting people might believe. Rather, it is a “fighting dance” (all newspapers) that is not to be trifled with: “The soul of Capoeira is ‘Malícia’, cunning and cunning. Hiding the actual intention, tricking the opponent. Being bad but clever is more important than fitness and technique” (“Image”). The devious terror old woman wasn’t interested in sport, but rather in kicking, deceiving and tricking. Fight dancing, finish off your opponent, be evil. “This life between Brazilian folklore and grenades behind the kitchen table fits Daniela Klette’s girlish face” (“Frankfurter Rundschau”). There’s no question: “Life in Kreuzberg sometimes feels dangerous” (“Berliner Zeitung”).

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Thanks to in-depth research, the “Tagesspiegel” has now discovered that the Kreuzberg apartment in which the (suspected) criminal who went into hiding “measures less than 40 square meters.” Klette’s greasy living cave was – probably to fool the unsuspecting neighbors – equipped with completely normal furniture, as the “Tagesspiegel” found out: “Bed frame made of pine, tables, cupboards.” That’s suspicious. The question is also: Why did it have to be a small apartment?

It cannot be ruled out that the (suspected) criminal deliberately divided her small apartment into individual, even smaller segments so that if the police unexpectedly came, she could hide in the adjacent room or behind a strategically placed curtain: “Little one Bathroom, small kitchen, a combined living room and bedroom. In this main room, a small part of the room was divided off with the help of a cupboard and a small curtain,” reports the “Tagesspiegel”. Everything was treacherously small at the hiding place of the (suspected) top gangster, who is only 1.65 meters tall: bathroom, kitchen, curtains, partitioned room. Apparently she deliberately kept everything in her suspiciously small apartment very small in the hope that the authorities wouldn’t discover things that were small. But the “nice burr” (“Bild”) was very wrong! The rule of law remains vigilant. He doesn’t miss even small things.

According to the Tagesspiegel, the trickster aunt’s terror den was furnished in an “unspectacular” manner, as one expert said. The apartment was said to have been ‘in the usual condition for Berlin’, which meant: ‘Not overly cleaned, but okay.’ In addition to (…) some books and magazines, there were clothes in the apartment.” But that’s not all. It is probably anything but a coincidence that the lying witch’s tiny, clandestine hiding place was in a house “whose windows resemble embrasures” (“Image”).

Yes, that’s how life was great underground: the (presumably) lazy communist grandma with the girl’s face, who “didn’t learn anything except terror” (“Bild”), sat when she wasn’t eating cookies or with her dirty dog She went for a walk in her dirty shack between shelves, books and clothes, stared cheekily out of her embrasure windows and had a good time. Not even before the SEK came did the (presumed) left-wing radical grubby villain think it necessary to clean things up. Good thing she’s finally behind bars.

The “Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung” also spent days researching and found that there were strong “similarities” between the neo-Nazi terrorist gang National Socialist Underground (NSU) and “the RAF trio in hiding”: “There were also two men and a woman .” The police are therefore continuing to intensively search for Daniela Klette’s two friends who have gone into hiding. “It’s two men without a wife,” said a police spokesman. “We already have the woman.” In any case, the “Frankfurter Rundschau” warns against falling for the lapdog behavior that Burkhard Garweg, who is currently still a fugitive, displayed (helping frail senoresses around the house, begging for alms): Rather, the people in hiding are “like former fighting dogs that have been retrained to be ‘quiet’ without losing their willingness to fight.” Any police station will accept information about the possible whereabouts of the two (suspected) former RAF members.

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