Overview
- The Landgericht Verden on Wednesday convicted 67‑year‑old Daniela Klette of particularly serious robbery in six cases and related offences and sentenced her to 13 years in prison.
- The court said the crimes dated from 1999 to 2016 and involved attacks on money transports and supermarket tills that prosecutors say yielded about €2.4 million in the cases tried.
- Judges based their verdict on a combination of DNA links from abandoned getaway vehicles, items seized in Klette’s 2024 Berlin arrest and large‑scale digital analysis of seized data.
- Klette’s defence immediately lodged a revision, arguing the evidence and the use of AI‑assisted data tools were not adequately transparent and that some expert testimony was not heard in court.
- Separate risks remain: federal prosecutors have brought RAF‑era indictments that may lead to a new trial if the OLG Frankfurt admits the case, and two alleged accomplices, Burkhard Garweg and Ernst‑Volker Staub, are still at large.