The jailing of Germany’s most wanted woman – podcast | Germany

To her friends and neighbors, there was nothing extraordinary about Claudia Ivone.

As our Berlin correspondent, Deborah Cole, The silver-haired 67-year-old man lived in the same flat for years in a bohemian district of West Berlin, he explains. She lived an ordinary life: She had a dog, went shopping, and pursued an unusual hobby as an active member of a local capoeira dance group.

But Claudia was not what she seemed. In fact, that wasn’t even his real name. She was actually Daniela Klette.

Klette had been on the run and evading justice for three decades for violent crimes he committed as a leading member of West Germany’s most notorious far-left militant group, the Red Army Faction (RAF).

He was finally sentenced to 13 years in prison at the end of May, following his arrest two years ago.

The Guardian’s international security correspondent, jason burke, joins Annie Kelly To discuss the history of the RAF and whether the conditions exist today for the revival of armed militant groups like it.