Monika Haas

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Monika Haas (born May 2, 1948 in Frankfurt am Main ) was sentenced to five years imprisonment in 1998 for participating in the hijacking of the plane "Landshut" in 1977 . Years earlier she was married to Zaki Helou, a functionary of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine .

Life

At the end of the 1960s, Monika Haas was involved in the squatter scene . At the beginning of the 1970s she campaigned for an improvement in the prison conditions of the RAF members, went underground after several house searches in 1975 and followed Siegfried Haag to Aden in Yemen . According to her, she was arrested by Kenyan security authorities in early 1976 in Nairobi for acting as a courier for the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), which has been classified as terrorist , and was released after three days of interrogation.

On January 18-25, three Palestinians were arrested in Nairobi on information from the Mossad and a Soviet surface-to-air missile supplied by Idi Amin's agents, which was intended to shoot down a landing El Al plane. A German couple who arrived afterwards and who were associated with the RAF were arrested, as was Haas, who, unlike her, were secretly flown to Israel and sentenced by a military court to ten-year prison terms under highly controversial circumstances. In Yemen she met the PFLP functionary Zaki Helou, whom she married a little later and with whom she has two children. After their marriage broke up, she inquired of the German authorities whether there was anything wrong with her and returned to Frankfurt in 1982.

In 1992 she was confronted with having been involved in the hijacking of the Landshut plane in 1977 . Haas was charged with transporting the arms to the Palestinian kidnapping squad. On January 18, 1996, a trial against her was opened before the 5th Criminal Senate of the Higher Regional Court in Frankfurt am Main . The surviving kidnapper Souhaila Andrawes was summoned as a key witness after she made a statement in 1994 about Haas' involvement. However, Andrawes revoked this statement and, like Brigitte Mohnhaupt , refused to testify in the subsequent process and was therefore in custody for six months . RAF terrorist Peter-Jürgen Boock, however, incriminated Haas. The testimony of a Mossad agent, Said Slim, who was detained in Lebanon, who stated that he carried out the transport with Haas, was also admitted. However, Slim never testified in a German court himself, but was questioned by BKA officials in a Lebanese prison. The defense saw an anonymous testimony by BKA officers who could not be questioned by the defense as a violation of the principle of fair trial according to the European Convention on Human Rights.

Haas was finally convicted on November 16, 1998, of aiding and abetting air traffic attacks, aiding and abetting hostage-taking, aiding and abetting extortionate kidnapping and aiding and abetting attempted murder in two cases to five years imprisonment. Her appeal was rejected by the Federal Court of Justice in 2000, her constitutional complaint was not accepted for decision in 2001.

literature

  • The trial against Monika Haas. Documentation of an event of the Committee for Fundamental Rights and Democracy, the Forum for Monika Haas, the Bunten Hilfe Frankfurt am Main and the Frankfurt Women's Alliance March 8, 1996 in Frankfurt. Committee for Fundamental Rights and Democracy, Cologne 1996, ISBN 3-88906-066-8 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ TAZ of February 12, 2000: BGH confirms judgment against Haas. Retrieved January 17, 2015 .
  2. ↑ RP – Online from February 22, 2001: RAF helper sued against conviction. Monika Haas fails with a constitutional complaint. Retrieved January 17, 2015 .
  3. ↑ Wolf in the desert . In: Der Spiegel . No. 10 , 1992 ( online - Mar. 2, 1992 ).
  4. ↑ Affaires: Total Solar Eclipse. In: Der Spiegel of January 21, 1980, accessed on May 9, 2019
  5. ↑ Tim Geiger: Western Anti-Terrorism Diplomacy in the Middle East. In: Combating Terrorism in Western Europe: Democracy and Security in the 1970s and 1980s. Edited by Johannes Hürter , Walter de Gruyter, Berlin 2015, p. 273 f.
  6. ↑ Andreas Förster: The woman who once wanted to die , Berliner Zeitung, August 14, 1999.
  7. ^ Judgment against Monika Haas is legal. In: Spiegel Online. February 11, 2000, accessed November 30, 2014 .
  8. ↑ Arndt Sinn, Mark Alexander Zöller: Terrorism and Organized Crime. Hüthig Jehle Rehm 2013, ISBN 3-811-43934-0 . P. 57, no. 63 and 64.
  9. ↑ Die Welt from November 17, 1998: Haas wants to appeal against judgment. Retrieved January 17, 2015 .
  10. ^ BGH , communication of February 11, 2000.
  11. ^ Agence France-Presse announcement of February 22, 2001.
personal data
SURNAME Haas, Monika
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German hijacker
DATE OF BIRTH May 2, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main