Princess under special guard
STOCKHOLM. Mav 11 I The,Swedish police hav< I put a special guard on Pritt ; cess Christina, her husband, [and a Government Minister, [after threats to their live*. | The special measures were taken last night, after a Stockholm newspaper had received a letter threatening to kill the three unless a ransom of 2 million West German marks (about $626,000) was paid to a person in West Germany. The letter, postmarked Hamburg, was signed “Korn mando Siegfried Hausner.” the name of the West Ger I man guerrilla who died in (Stuttgart last week from [ bums he received in a raid • lon the West German Em '.bassy in Stockholm two i (weeks ago. The letter threatened that, •jin addition to the Princess : and her husband, a MinisterII without-portfolio, Mrs Anna(Greta Leijon — who gave rlthe order to extradite to •(West Germany the injured »'Hausner and four other )■ guerrillas involved in the i; raid — would be killed. > The letter also threatened i further terrorist action in /[West Germany to win th* I release from German prisons .’■of members of the extremist I Baader-Meinhof group.
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Press, Issue 33840, 12 May 1975, Page 15
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Princess under special guard
Press, Issue 33840, 12 May 1975, Page 15
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