Last major Baader-Meinhof case opens in Germany
The last major trial of a Red Army Faction guerrilla, 58-year-old Verena Becker, has begun in the southwestern city of Stuttgart, 33 years after the militants murdered a federal prosecutor.
Becker, a leader of the leftist group also known as the Baader-Meinhof gang, was charged with participating in the 1977 shooting of federal prosecutor Siegfried Buback.Buback, one of the most prominent victims of the group, was ambushed by two people on a motorcycle when his car stopped at a traffic light in Karlsruhe on April 7, 1977. The killers escaped in a getaway car. (Reuters)
