High security was in place at a courtroom in northern Germany on Tuesday where a former member of a disbanded far-left terrorist organization was set to go on trial.
Daniela Klette is to be tried by the Verden Regional Court on charges of attempted murder, illegal possession of firearms and aggravated robbery.
The 66-year-old was part of the Red Army Faction (RAF), a well-known German terrorist group that was founded in 1968 and remained active well into the 1990s.
Due to security reasons, the trial is taking place in a secure room at the Higher Regional Court in Celle, near Hanover.
A dpa reporter on the scene saw police and judicial officers securing the building with machine pistols, with sniffer dogs also in operation.
Klette has arrived at the court ahead of the beginning of the trial.
Armed police officers secure the Celle Higher Regional Court, where the trial against former RAF terrorist Daniela Klette will begin. The investigators accuse Klette of attempted murder, unauthorized possession of weapons as well as attempted and completed aggravated robbery. The case concerns 13 robberies of cash transporters and supermarkets in Lower Saxony, North Rhine-Westphalia and Schleswig-Holstein. Sina Schuldt/dpa
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