France, March 25 -- The trial of Daniela Klette, a former member of Germany's far-left Baader-Meinhof gang who was arrested last year after more than 30 years on the run, started on Tuesday in Celle, northern Germany. The 66-year-old is accused of a series of armed robberies.

Klette was part of the radical anti-capitalist group also known as the Red Army Faction (RAF), which carried out a series of bombings, kidnappings and killings in the 1970s and 1980s.

She was arrested in February 2024 at her Berlin flat, where police found a Kalashnikov assault rifle, explosives and large sums of cash, after apparently hiding there in plain sight for two decades.

Weeks earlier, the creators of a German "most wanted" podcast had stumbled across pho...