Deborah Cole

They found a sort of fake bazooka-like gun that was also used in at least one of the armed robberies that she took part in.

Yeah, well, you know, the armed robberies that she was involved in over these last years were intended to fund her life underground, as well as the lives of two accomplices who are still on the run, who have still managed to evade capture by the police.

I mean, I think it's important to say that for all the kind of cinematic qualities, and there was over the decades, the RAF also had this kind of glamorous quality.

that attracted a lot of people.

But these were not, you know, victimless crimes.

I mean, there were about 30 people who were killed by the RAF and more than 200 people were injured.

And even in these actions that this group, this final core of the three people, Daniela Cleta and her two accomplices,

The crimes that they committed were not victimless either.

I mean, they were armed robberies of, you know, armored trucks carrying cash and of supermarkets.

And one of the security guards who was held at gunpoint apparently has not been able to work since that day and was so traumatized by what happened.

So the group has blood on its hands.

So Germany...

with its legacy of the Nazi period and then also East Germany's communist period, has very strict regulations when it comes to data protection.

And any sort of overreach by the state, even when trying to tackle things like violent extremism and terrorism,

the authorities are hemmed in by these restrictions.

And so doing things like using facial recognition software to just sort of, you know, run wanted people through the system and try to match them up against any, for example, press photos is not on in Germany.

You would need a warrant and you would need cause to assume that the person you're looking for, you know, had been, for example, at this event.

She was hiding in plain sight.

She was out at, every year in Kreuzberg, there's something called the Carnival of Cultures.

And this was founded about 30 years ago to celebrate Berlin's diversity.