Shooting talk
NZPA-Reuter Stuttgart A witness at the BaaderMeinhof urban guerrilla trial in Stutgart, West Germany, has told the judge: “We don’t usually talk to people like you, we shoot them.” Werner Hoppe, a 27-year-old convicted member of the extremist Baader-Meinhof group, was immediately sentenced to five weeks in prison for contempt of court.
The remark was directed at Presiding Judge Theodor Prinzmg at the trial of Andreas Baader, Cudrun Ensslin, and Jan-Carl Raspe, charged with a series of murders, bank robberies, and bombings in the early 19705. Horpe, serving a 10-year gaol sentence in Hamburg, was testifying for the defence.
The evidence was aimed at undermining the chief prosecution witness, Gerhard Mueller, a convicted member of the Baader-Meinhof group who has turned State evidence. i.- -
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Press, 5 August 1976, Page 6
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