The Indo Daily: Baader-Meinhof Gang: German terrorist captured after 30 years on the run – but the manhunt for others continues

Daniela Klette is one of three members of the “third generation” of the notorious urban guerrilla Red Army Faction (RAF) who had been in hiding since the 1990s. (AP)

In 1970s Germany a campaign of terror raged — with assaults, kidnappings, and assassinations, spreading fear across the country.

Born from a radical student movement, the Baader-Meinhof Gang, also known as the Red Army Faction, would write their names into history with the blood of others, leaving chaos in their wake.

And now, dramatic scenes in Berlin have led to a major arrest — that of an unassuming, neighbourly 65-year-old woman, who was on the run from authorities for three decades. But the manhunt is now intensifying as police desperately search for the remaining members of the long-dormant terrorist outfit.

Fionnán Sheahan is joined on the Indo Daily by Berlin-based freelance journalist James Jackson to profile the notorious Red Army Faction and to examine the new developments in this decades-long story