Red Army member to walk free
Güncelleme Tarihi:
STUTTGART - Christian Klar, a former member of the Red Army Faction, or RAF, who has spent 26 years in prison for killings that shook Germany in the 1970s, will be released on parole, a court ruled yesterday.
Klar was convicted in 1985 of involvement in 20 murders and attempted murders, including the killings of senior German industry figures and public officials. The 56-year old would be released on parole in January after serving the minimum term for a life sentence, the court in the southwestern city of Stuttgart said.
New criminal acts?
"A major consideration was the question whether it could be feared that Christian Klar would commit significant criminal acts again. The Senate's answer to this was no," the court said in a statement.
The RAF, which was also known as the "Baader-Meinhof Gang" after founders Andreas Baader and Ulrike Meinhof, was a left-wing guerrilla movement, which grew out of the student protests and anti-Vietnam war movements in the West Germany of the late 1960s. The group is believed to have killed 34 people between 1970 and 1991, before disbanding ten years ago.