Former militant killer to be released in Germany

[Judi Lynn]

Former militant killer to be released in Germany
Reuters | Tuesday, 13 February 2007

BERLIN: Former Red Army Faction militant Brigitte Mohnhaupt is to be released from prison, a German court said, after 24 years in jail for her role in killings that shook West Germany's nascent democracy in the 1970s.
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"This is not a pardon, rather a decision that is based on specific legal considerations," the Stuttgart court said in a statement. "The decision for probation was reached based on the determination that no security risk exists."

The court said Mohnhaupt, who has served the minimum sentence for her crimes under German law, would be released on five years probation on March 27.

Mohnhaupt, 57, was arrested in 1982 and sentenced to five life sentences for her role in the murders of leading German figures including industrialist Hanns Martin Schleyer, Dresdner Bank head Juergen Ponto and federal prosecutor Siegfried Buback.
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The group, which announced in 1998 it was disbanding, is suspected of killing 34 people between 1972 and 1991. Some 26 RAF members died during that period and another 26 were sentenced to life in prison.
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Hanns Martin Schleyer, a former Nazi party member who was president of West Germany's powerful employers' association in the 1970s, was executed by the RAF in a forest in France. The identity of the militant who shot him remains a mystery.
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Brigitte Mohnhaupt

[Greeby]

1. The full rundown of the Baader-Meinhoff Gang

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baader-Meinhof_Group

Nasty pieces of work