Overview
- The Landgericht Verden convicted Daniela Klette on Wednesday for six counts of particularly serious robbery, related extortion and weapons offences and imposed a 13‑year prison sentence.
- The court found Klette acted as part of a tightly organised trio that carried out robberies between 1999 and 2016, and it relied on material seized at her February 2024 arrest including weapons, forged documents, gold and roughly €240,000 in cash.
- Defense teams criticised investigative methods used in the case, specifically the AI‑assisted Cellebrite Pathfinder prefiltering of 18 terabytes of data and the introduction of expert reports via self‑reading, and they have filed a revision and requests for further evidence such as comparative photo and witness testimony about the cash.
- The Federal Prosecutor filed a separate indictment months ago accusing Klette of co‑participation in RAF attacks from 1990–1993, a case now to be considered by the state‑security senate at the OLG Frankfurt, while two alleged co‑perpetrators, Burkhard Garweg and Ernst‑Volker Staub, remain at large.
- The verdict closes the local criminal trial but is likely to trigger prolonged appeals and a fresh political and legal debate over digital evidence handling, with direct consequences for victims seeking redress and for ongoing police manhunts.