The COMMITTEE

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The KOMITEE was a militant, autonomous underground organization in Germany. In 1994, she committed an arson attack on a building of the Bundeswehr (the Kreiswehrersatzamt in Bad Freienwalde (Oder) ) and tried the following year one under construction deportation prison in Berlin-Grünau to blow. These acts were directed against what they considered to be the “repressive policy of the FRG both internally and externally” and against “Germany [as] a war party in the genocide in Kurdistan ”. In a ruling from November 1995, the Federal Court of Justice described the COMMITTEE as a " left - terrorist organization ".

background

The group first appeared in October 1994. On October 27, 1994, she destroyed “a building belonging to the Defense District Command 852 of the Bundeswehr in Bad Freienwalde, Märkisch-Oderland district , with an incendiary device.” This was justified with human rights violations by Turkey against the Kurdish population group. The attack took place against the Bundeswehr, as Germany is Turkey's most important foreign policy partner and one of the largest arms suppliers . The Bundeswehr was directly involved in the "atrocities" of the Turkish army in the Kurdish areas by providing training opportunities and weapons .

On the night of April 10-11, 1995, members tried to blow up the deportation prison in Berlin-Grünau , which was under construction . By chance they were discovered by a police patrol during the preparations. The perpetrators escaped, but left behind a lot of clues and evidence. Among other things, the police were able to seize 120 kilograms of explosives as well as numerous documents and identification papers in a car registered for the sister of one of the men. These traces led to three men known by name who have since fled and were placed on the BKA's public wanted list by the Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA) . In the reporting, parallels were drawn with the bomb attack against the JVA Weiterstadt of the Red Army faction .

As a result of the offense, the Federal Prosecutor's Office began the investigation and the BKA began pursuing the three suspects. The COMMITTEE sent a statement to the daily newspaper , which was published in it on September 18, 1995. In it, the group committed itself to the attack on the Bundeswehr barracks and to the preparations for the failed attack on the Grünau penal institution. She also announced her self-dissolution. However, the investigative authorities did not consider this to be credible and saw it as an attempt at deception.

The failed action subsequently led to a debate between autonomous groups about the manner of militant politics.

At the beginning of July 2014, one of the three suspects, Bernhard Heidbreder, was tracked down under the false identity of John Jairo Londoó Smith in Mérida ( Venezuela ) by investigators from the BKA and arrested by local special forces. The Federal Republic of Germany then submitted an extradition request, which was rejected in October 2015. Under the motto “Stayed there. No extradition by Bernhard Heidbreder ”had mobilized supporters in Germany and Venezuela against extradition. In the spring of 2017, the two other alleged members of the group who had previously gone into hiding, Peter Wendelin Krauth and Thomas Robert Walter, also applied for asylum in Venezuela.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Just next to it is also over ( Memento from December 25, 2004 in the Internet Archive ). Explanation of the COMMITTEE on the failed Grünau action, page 4, accessed on February 1, 2009
  2. ↑ a b Investigating judge of the Federal Court of Justice: BGH 3 StB 84/95 - decision of November 24, 1995
  3. ↑ radical No. 151, December 94, p. 26.
  4. ↑ radical No. 151, December 94, p. 26 f.
  5. ↑ wanted page of the BKA
  6. ↑ Militancy - Documentation of a Debate ( Memento of February 15, 2008 in the Internet Archive ), texts from the Militancy Debate from 1995 to May 2003 from Interim and Radikal
  7. ↑ Profile Heidbreder bka.de
  8. ↑ Detenido en Mérida terrorista solicitado por Interpol el-nacional.com, from July 12, 2014 (Spanish)
  9. ^ Alleged left-wing terrorist Heidbreder arrested after 20 years on the run , Spiegel Online , July 20, 2014
  10. ^ German justice wants extradition of left-wing extremists from Venezuela . amerika21, July 24, 2014
  11. ↑ Christian Kliver: Venezuela does not extradite left- wing radicals to Germany . amerika21, October 28, 2015
  12. ↑ Venezuela does not extradite left-wing radicals from Berlin , Neues Deutschland , October 29, 2015 (accessed December 25, 2017). See also the website dageblieben.net (accessed on September 26, 2014).
  13. ↑ Profile Krauth bka.de
  14. ↑ Profile Walter bka.de
  15. ↑ Wolf-Dieter Vogel: Autonomous people apply for asylum in Venezuela: Appeared after decades. In: taz.de . March 20, 2017. Retrieved December 26, 2017 .