Word: schleyer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Though several telephone callers had claimed a link between Caransa's kidnaping and the Red Army terrorist group that abducted and murdered West German Industrialist Hanns-Martin Schleyer, Dutch police continued to investigate the case for the nonpolitical offense that it evidently was. "We are not butchers with political motives," Caransa quoted one captor as saying. "We are criminals and we want a lot of money." They got plenty of that -44 Ibs. of crisp new 1,000-guilder notes, worth about $400 each. What continues to puzzle police is why the kidnapers would demand payment in a denomination...
West Germany, meanwhile, was bury-.ng its dead. In Stuttgart, Chancellor Schmidt and 700 official mourners drawn from the ranks of government, business and labor attended a state funeral for Schleyer. As police sharpshooters perched on the rooftops of buildings that surrounded St. Eberhard's Church, President Walter Scheel in his eulogy described the struggle against terrorism as "the fight of civilization against barbarians." Declared Scheel: "If this flame is not smothered immediately, the brushfire will spread over the whole world...
...security measures, West Germans were steeling themselves for still more attacks by the Red Army Faction or its allies in the international network of terror. Somewhere near Aachen, an illegal radio transmitter sputtered for a few minutes last week on the frequency used by the U.S. armed forces network. "Schleyer will not be the last," it promised. Calling for the "destruction of the imperialist, corrupt, rotten place that calls itself the Federal Republic of Germany," it continued: "Destroy all police stations, banks, city halls ... The fight continues. We will not stop until the last government official is wiped...
Throughout the week West German police pressed their search for 16 terrorists wanted in connection with the Lufthansa skyjacking and Schleyer's kidnap-murder. Across the border French police were combing the area around Mulhouse-including the surviving concrete bunkers of World War II's Maginot Line, which would make excellent hiding places in the dense forests of Alsace...
...report did not explain satisfactorily how the prisoners had come into possession of pistols, knives, explosives and radios. It suggested that the items must have been smuggled in some time before the prisoners were put into solitary confinement following Schleyer's kidnaping. Another theory: prison guards had found the contraband but did not confiscate it, after being threatened with reprisals against their families. Such threats have been made before against Germans who have not wanted to help Baader-Meinhof gang members...