During Wednesday, several German media reported that the police arrested the far-left terrorist Burkhard Garweg.
A few hours later, however, the police were able to establish that they had caught the wrong person. The man arrested was not Garweg.
German police arrested a person on a train outside Berlin late Tuesday night. Several travelers had called in and raised the alarm that the man looked like a wanted person.
On Wednesday, the German Bild wrote that the arrested man was Burkhard Garweg, who has been wanted for many years. Garweg belonged to the Red Army Faction (RAF), also known as the Baader-Meinhofligan, which is suspected of being behind several murders, kidnappings and bombings in Germany in the 70s and 80s.
Later on Wednesday, however, the man was released. It turned out that he was not Burkhard Garweg, nor any other RAF member, writes the Berliner Morgenpost.
- “The checks show that it is not a wanted person”, says the German Prosecutor’s Office according to the newspaper.
Went underground
The Baader Meinhof League, or Red Army Faction (RAF) was disbanded at the end of the 90s and after that Burkhard Garweg went underground together with companions Ernst-Volker Staub and Daniela Klette.
In 1975, the League carried out an attack on the West German embassy in Stockholm, where two embassy employees and two RAF members were killed.
