Andrea Martina Klump was a Red Army Faction

Red Army Faction

The radicalized were, like many in the New Left, influenced by:* Sociological developments, pressure within the educational system in and outside Europe and the U.S...

 terrorist.

Early life

From 1978 to 1981 Klump studied Ethnology

Ethnology

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, Sociology

Sociology

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 and Political Science

Political science

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 in Frankfurt/Main. In 1984 she went underground. She was the girlfriend of a fellow RAF activist, Horst Ludwig Meyer.

Terrorist Activities

• In 1988 along with Meyer, Klump attempted to bomb a Spanish
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   disco in Rota
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   which was oft frequented by US
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   servicemen
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  , but the attempt was unsuccessful.
• Around 1989 Klump was thought to have been one of the prime suspects in the assassination
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   of banker Alfred Herrhausen
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  , but this theory was later rejected due to a lack of evidence.
• On December 23, 1991, Klump, again along with Meyer, attempted to murder 33 people, including 29 Soviet Jewish emigrants in Hungary
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   on behalf of a radical Palestinian
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   group. She planted 25 kg of high explosives in a parked car on the road to a Budapest
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   airport, where a bus carrying her intended victims was to pass by. However the home-made remote control detonator is believed to have been faulty, as the bomb went off a few seconds earlier than planned. Six people were injured in the ensuing explosion (4 individuals on the bus and 2 individuals traveling in a nearby police car), but there were no fatalities.
• On September 15, 1999, Klump and Meyer were approached by police in Vienna
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  , Austria
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  . In the subsequent shoot-out, Meyer was shot dead and Klump was arrested and was then extradited back to Germany
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Sentencing

In court in Germany, Klump confessed to the attempted bombing of the disco in Spain in 1988 and was sentenced to nine years in prison. Other criminal charges at that time, such as involvement in a terrorist organisation, were dropped. Klump only partially confessed to the 1991 Hungary bombing, stating that she was aware of the operation prior to its execution but was not directly involved in it. However police found DNA evidence of Klump's stay in Budapest around the time of the bombing and on 28 September 2004 Klump was sentenced by a High Court in Stuttgart

Stuttgart

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to a further 12 years in prison.

She is currently incarcerated.