Members of the left-wing Red Army Faction (RAF), which has posed a terrorist threat to Germany for decades, are now suspected of further robberies, prosecutors said on Wednesday.
A new video, photos and current information about former terrorists Burkhard Garweg and Ernst-Volker Staub are used to track them down.
The two men are believed to have carried out attacks on cash-in-transit vehicles and supermarkets between 1999 and 2016, just like Daniela Klette, who was arrested in Berlin earlier this year.
They are now linked to three more robberies, bringing the total to 13 crimes, with a total damage of €2.7 million ($3.0 million). The money was used to finance their lives in the underground.
The three are being investigated on suspicion of crimes including aggravated robbery and attempted murder, as well as kidnapping for the purpose of extortion.
Klette, Staub and Garweg were third-generation members of the RAF. The organisation, which killed more than 30 people, announced its dissolution in 1998.
The new video will air on German television on Wednesday evening. “The assumption is that this video will show Burkhard Garweg,” a statement released before the broadcast said.
Police have also released false identity documents that could have been used to rent apartments near the crime scenes. The aim is to locate the landlords who rented the properties at the time.
The original RAF was best known outside Germany as the Baader-Meinhoff Group, named after two of its main protagonists.
