Terror suspect tells lawyer: German police kidnapped us
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AZPA-Reuter Bonn One of four West German urban guerrillas extradited to West Germany from Bulgaria has said he and his women companions were kidnapped without Bulgarian knowledge.
A lawyer, Wolfgang! Panka, said after visiting an accused guerrilla, Till Meyer, j in West Berlin that his client alleged that a West German police squad snatched them behind the. backs of the Bulgarian authorities. But the West German Interior Minister (Mr Ger-: han Baum) told a news conference in Bonn lha. West German and Bulgarian police co-operated in Wednesday’s capture of Meyer. Gabriele Rollnik. Gudrun Stuermer, and another woman not yet identified Meyer, aged 34, wa . transferred to West Berlin from West Germany during the day. He escaped from Ber-
lin's Moabit Prisop last month with the help of two ; women who posed as law- ; yers, then shot and wounded a prison guard. He and Rollnik, described .by Mr Baum as “extremely i dangerous criminals,” are i accused of involvement in I the kidnapping of a West : Berlin politician, Peter Loirenz. in 1975 and in the murder of the city's chief judge the previous November. Mr Panka said that Meyer told him that he and the women were sitting in a : cafe in the Bulgarian holiday resort of Sonnenstrand — th German name for Slan- . cey Brjag (Sunny Beach) — 'when several heavily armed West German police sprang ■ out of four hired cars and I pounced on them. , Meyer told the lawyer they were taken to a holiday . bungalow and forced to lie on " the floor for several hours. About midnight, ' , still wearing their beach clothing, they were put into a van bearing a number plate issued by West German Customs and driven through a heavy storm to an airport. Meyer said to Mr Panka that without involving the Bulgarian authorities, he' and jthe women were placed aboard a West German Lufthansa aircraft which took off Immediately.
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Press, 24 June 1978, Page 9
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