The Assassination of Siegfried Buback and Rearrest
On April 7, 1977, Siegfried Buback, then the chief federal prosecutor for the Bundesgerichtshof, was shot by members of RAF while travelling from his home in Neureut to the Bundesgerichtshof in Karlsruhe; while Buback's Mercedes was stopped at a traffic light a motorcycle pulled alongside and the passenger on the rear of the motorcycle opened fire with an automatic weapon at the vehicle. There is some evidence suggesting that Verena Becker took part in the assassination of Chief Federal Prosecutor Siegfried Buback, though she herself claims Stefan Wisniewski was the one who killed him. DNA evidence however indicates that Becker probably did not take part in the killing. The case has been reopened and Becker was re-arrested on charges relating to the assassination on 28 August 2009. In April 2010, following examination of DNA on a letter claiming responsibility for the murder, she has been charged for the 1977 murder.
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