Terrorist suspects caught in Bulgaria
NZPA-Reuter Bonn Four suspected West German urban guerrillas have (been arrested in Bulgaria and handed over to West GfrI many, the West German [lnterior Ministry has said, j The four, including the escaped prisoner. Till Meyer, and Gabriele Rollnik. suspected of taking part, in his daring escape from a West Berlin prison on May 27, ■ were flown to West Germany on Wednesday night, the Interior Minister (Mr Gerhart Baum) said in a statement. He said the four were seized in Bulgaria on Tues--1 day by Bulgarian security forces co-operating with a special “target detection commando” of the West German police. Two women bluffed their way into a West Berlin jail
by pretending to be lawyers to free Meyer. A guard was shot, as they escaped. Target detection commandos are small units form’d to track down individual ter(rorists in a national manhunt I for those wanted in a string ;of Red Army Faction assasi sinations, kidnappings, and (Other violence that culminated in the slaying of the industrialist, Hanns Martin j Schleyer, last October 18. It was the third important arrest of West German terrorist suspects in recent (weeks, and the second tiije ! that the arrest took place ’with (he co-operation of i Communist East European authorities. The French police arrested a suspect, Stefan Wisniewski, ;at Orly Airport last Ma" 11 i with a plane ticket to Zagreb, 'in Yugoslavia, in his pocket. In a co-ordinated action involving several West and
‘ East European police forces. Yugoslav authorities, tipped off by computer-assisted German experts, arrested four , I more German terrorist susfjpects in Yugoslavia the . same day. I Those arrested in Yugor slavia, like Wisniewski, were r on a list of the top 20 sus- . pects wanted in 1977 terror r ; strikes including the assassii; nation of the West German i Chief Prosecutor, Seigfri’d j Buback, and the Dresdner ■ .Bank chief. Juergen Ponte, •land the September 5 kidnapping of Dr Schleyer. Dr Schleyer was held for , ■ six weeks in a secret ter- ■ jrorist hide-out and finally shot dead alter German commandoes stormed a hilacked Lufthansa plane at Mogadishu Airport in Somalia on October 18, freeing hostages taken to support The l Schleyer kidnappers demand I for the release of 11 jailed terrorists. The industrialist’s body was found in the luggage compartment, of an ) abandoned car in Mulhouse, ' France, the next dav. ■ _
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