Overview
- Defense lawyers, who delivered their closing argument Wednesday, said prosecutors failed to prove Daniela Klette took part in the robberies and asked the court to lift her arrest warrant.
- Counsel argued only a weapons offense is supported by the raid on her Berlin flat and said time already spent in custody would cover any sentence for that lesser crime.
- The defense attacked the process as unfair, citing a terrorism-style security setup, the alleged handpicking of the presiding judge, the use of commercial AI to sift case data, blocked questioning of expert witnesses, and weak DNA links.
- Prosecutors still seek 15 years for attempted murder, armed gang robbery, and weapons crimes, though the court has indicated the 2015 Stuhr shooting may not qualify as attempted murder and the victim’s lawyer asked for 11 years for that single case.
- On Tuesday Klette read her own statement, expressing regret over victims’ suffering without admitting guilt, framing the robberies as survival in the underground, while the case now centers on eight alleged heists after five counts were dropped and two suspected accomplices remain at large.