A search for two members of Germany’s disbanded Red Army Faction has ended unsuccessfully, police have said.
Some 130 officers and forensic experts were deployed in Berlin to look for Ernst-Volker Staub and Burkhard Garweg – both believed to be members of the so-called ‘third generation’ of the RAF – who have been on the run since the 1990s.
They are thought to have been involved with several robberies and at least one attempted murder.
A third suspect, Daniela Klette, 65, was arrested after more than 30 years on the run in Lower Saxony last week.
The Red Army Faction emerged from German student protests against the Vietnam War but declared itself disbanded in 1998.
The group was behind the 1993 bombing of a newly-built prison in Darmstadt, south of Frankfurt. No one was injured in the attack, which ultimately became the RAF’s last major act before it dissolved.
But its wider campaign against what it described as US imperialism and capitalist oppression, left 34 dead and hundreds more injured.
A police spokesperson from Lower Saxony, which was participating in the most recent search, said two people had been arrested but later clarified that the two suspects had not been found.
A number of other people who were briefly detained were also freed, they added.
On Saturday the force published a series of photos it believed to be of Garweg taken between 2021 to 2024, including one of him sitting between two dogs while eating a bowl of pasta on a sofa.