Editing Red Army Faction (section)

=== Legacy ===
[[Horst Mahler]], a founding RAF member, is now a vocal [[Neo-Nazi]] and [[Holocaust denial|Holocaust denier]].<ref>Mahler, Horst (25 March 2001). [https://web.archive.org/web/20010602091156/http://www.regmeister.net:80/h_mahler.htm "Discovery of God instead of Jewish Hatred"]. Lecture prepared for the Conference of Revisionist Historians on 3 April 2001. The meeting was prohibited by the Lebanese government on 23 March 2001.</ref><ref>{{cite magazine |url=http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,550430,00.html |author=<!-- Staff writer(s); no by-line --> |title=German Sentenced to 10 Months for Hitler Greeting |date=29 April 2008 |magazine=[[Der Spiegel]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090210103754/http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,550430,00.html |archive-date=10 February 2009 |agency=[[Deutsche Presse-Agentur]]}}</ref> In 2005, he was sentenced to six years in prison for [[Volksverhetzung|incitement to racial hatred]] against Jews.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.ejpress.org/article/12601 |work=European Jewish Press |title=Neo-Nazi Horst Mahler transferred to prison in Bavaria |date=29 December 2006 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081201085655/http://www.ejpress.org/article/12601 |archive-date=1 December 2008 |url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.jewishpress.com/pageroute.do/16321/ |title=The Strange Case of Horst Mahler |first=William |last=Grim |date=9 June 2004
|work=The Jewish Press |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090309030637/http://www.jewishpress.com/pageroute.do/16321 |archive-date=9 March 2009 }}</ref> He is on record as saying {{lang|de|"Der Feind ist der Gleiche"}} ("The enemy is the same").<ref>''[[Frankfurter Rundschau]]'', 22 April 1999; ''[[Junge Welt]]'', February 1999</ref>{{full citation needed|date=June 2020}}

In 2007, amidst widespread media controversy, [[President of Germany|German president]] [[Horst Köhler]] considered pardoning RAF member [[Christian Klar]], who had filed a pardon application several years before. On 7 May 2007, pardon was denied; regular<ref group=lower-alpha>In Germany, lifelong imprisoned convicts can apply for parole after 15 years – a period in this case extended by the court due to the number of crimes – which is to be granted whenever the convict's freedom is no longer dangerous to the public.</ref> parole was later granted on 24 November 2008.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7745705.stm|title=Red Army Faction boss to be freed|access-date=11 February 2015 |publisher=[[BBC News]] |date=24 November 2008|archive-date=4 February 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150204193540/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7745705.stm|url-status=live}}</ref> RAF member [[Brigitte Mohnhaupt]] was granted release on five-year parole by a German court on 12 February 2007 and [[Eva Haule]] was released 17 August 2007.

In 2011, the last imprisoned RAF member, [[Birgit Hogefeld]], was released on parole.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.tagesspiegel.de/politik/reststrafe-zur-bewaehrung-fruehere-raf-terroristin-hogefeld-kommt-auf-freien-fuss/4275864.html|title=Frühere RAF-Terroristin Hogefeld kommt auf freien Fuß|work=[[Der Tagesspiegel]]|language=de|access-date=23 April 2019|date=10 June 2011|archive-date=23 April 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190423090607/https://www.tagesspiegel.de/politik/reststrafe-zur-bewaehrung-fruehere-raf-terroristin-hogefeld-kommt-auf-freien-fuss/4275864.html|url-status=live}}</ref>

Police in Europe investigating the whereabouts of Ernst-Volker Staub, Burkhard Garweg and Daniela Klette stated that a search had been made in Spain, France and Italy.<ref>{{Cite web | url=https://www.stuttgarter-zeitung.de/inhalt.ex-raf-terroristen-wo-sind-ernst-volker-staub-burkhard-garweg-und-daniela-klette.a0f0f850-0502-48f7-b766-a00f420e5d81.html | title=Ex-RAF-Terroristen: Trio wird im Ausland vermutet |language=de | access-date=30 July 2018 | archive-date=30 July 2018 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180730170620/https://www.stuttgarter-zeitung.de/inhalt.ex-raf-terroristen-wo-sind-ernst-volker-staub-burkhard-garweg-und-daniela-klette.a0f0f850-0502-48f7-b766-a00f420e5d81.html | url-status=live }}</ref> This followed reports that they could be hiding in the Netherlands in 2017 after being suspected of masterminding robberies in supermarkets and cash transit vehicles in [[Wolfsburg]], [[Bremen]] and [[Cremlingen]] between 2011 and 2016.<ref>{{Cite web|url = https://nltimes.nl/2017/06/28/new-indications-german-leftist-terrorist-group-members-hiding-netherlands|title = New indications of German leftist terrorist group members hiding in Netherlands|date = 28 June 2017|access-date = 30 July 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.bka.de/DE/IhreSicherheit/Fahndungen/Personen/BekanntePersonen/RAF_Aktuell/Fahndungsplakat_RAF_aktuell.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210308065628/https://www.bka.de/DE/IhreSicherheit/Fahndungen/Personen/BekanntePersonen/RAF_Aktuell/Fahndungsplakat_RAF_aktuell.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=8 March 2021|title=current wanted poster|publisher=BKA|access-date=10 September 2019|date=29 July 2016}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-35351477|title=German Red Army Faction radicals 'bungled armed robbery'|date=19 January 2016 |publisher=[[BBC News]] |language=en-GB|access-date=22 June 2018|archive-date=4 May 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180504030130/http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-35351477|url-status=live}}</ref> On 26 February 2024, Daniela Klette was arrested in Berlin; according to coverage in ''[[The Guardian]]'', Klette's arrest followed an investigative TV report about the missing trio, which sparked 250 independent tips to local police about their whereabouts.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Connolly |first1=Kate |title=Red Army Faction militant arrested in Germany after decades on run |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/feb/27/red-army-faction-militant-arrested-decades-run-germany-daniela-klette |website=[[The Guardian]] |access-date=7 March 2024 |date=27 February 2024}}</ref>

According to scholarly research into Stasi documents, RAF members in East Germany were trained and assisted by personnel from the [[Stasi Arbeitsgruppe des Ministers S]].<ref name="Igel 2012 190ff"/>