Barbara Meyer

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Barbara Meyer (born July 2, 1956 in Stuttgart ) was suspected of having been a member of the left-wing extremist terrorist organization Red Army Faction (RAF). From 1985 she was one of the most wanted people in the Federal Republic of Germany.

Life

Barbara Meyer went into hiding with her husband Horst Ludwig Meyer in 1984. From 1985 she was searched for, among other things, on suspicion of membership in the terrorist organization RAF. Meyer had lived in Lebanon since the second half of the eighties, and there separated from Horst Ludwig Meyer. She later met a Lebanese man and gave birth to a son.

Meyer came under suspicion in connection with the murder of MTU boss Ernst Zimmermann by the Red Army parliamentary group on February 1, 1985. Furthermore, she was strongly suspected on June 3, 1985 of a robbery on a money messenger (attempted murder in a crime with serious Robbery) and an attempted robbery of explosives on July 28, 1985 (both in Baden-Württemberg). In September 1985 the police discovered a conspiratorial RAF apartment in Tübingen . The officers found the fingerprints of Barbara and Horst Ludwig Meyer, Christoph Seidler, Wolfgang Grams and Eva Haule as well as documents about a car that had been used in the attack on the messenger. According to investigations by the Federal Criminal Police Office , Barbara Meyer had rented the apartment under the name Gabi Krauss . In 1985, an arrest warrant was issued against Meyer at the request of the federal prosecutor's office and publicly wanted . The manhunt was unsuccessful, Meyer was considered to have disappeared without a trace.

At the beginning of May 1999, she surrendered to the authorities at the German embassy in Beirut and voluntarily returned to Germany. Previously, it had become publicly known through newspaper reports that, from the point of view of the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution , there had been considerable doubts about the RAF's actual membership of the group of illegals. After their arrival at the airport Frankfurt on May 8, 1999, she was arrested and by following the adoption of a new arrest warrant investigating judge at the Federal Court in custody taken. On October 11, 1999, at the request of her defense attorney, she was released from pre-trial detention (Brühl branch of the Karlsruhe correctional facility ), because after her son had started school, there was no longer any risk of escape .

A participation in the alleged acts was denied by Meyer. Since her involvement in the alleged crimes could not be demonstrated "with the certainty required to bring charges" and the charge of RAF membership was subject to the statute of limitations between 1984 and 1986 , the investigation against her was closed in November 2000.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Investigation against Barbara Meyer stopped . The Federal Prosecutor General at the Federal Court of Justice , press release No. 40/2000, December 12, 2000, accessed on November 29, 2017.
  2. ↑ Barbara Meyer back from Lebanon . In: Rhein-Zeitung , May 10, 1999, accessed on November 29, 2017.
  3. ↑ Phantom from Lebanon . In: Der Spiegel , issue 20/1999, May 17, 1999, pp. 48/50, accessed on November 29, 2017.
  4. ↑ Hasso Suliak: The terrorist group allegedly only consists of three people / authorities do not comment. In: Berliner Zeitung . July 30, 1998, accessed July 2, 2016 .
  5. ^ A b RAF: Barbara Meyer at large . In: Spiegel Online , October 13, 1999, accessed November 29, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Meyer, Barbara
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German woman who was suspected of having been a member of the RAF
DATE OF BIRTH 2nd July 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Stuttgart