[9] Referred to by the press as "RAF pensioners",[10] Staub, Garweg, and Klette are also associated with several robberies in the 2000s and 2010s: in Bochum-Wattenscheid (27/12/2006), Wolfsburg (28/12/2015), Cremlingen (25/06/2016) and Stuhr (06/06/2015).
[11] In 2016, three Germans matching their description were mistakenly arrested by Dutch police after renting a farmhouse near Medemblik in the north of the Netherlands.
[12] The Bundeskriminalamt (Federal Criminal Police Office) put out a public appeal for information leading to her arrest, or that of accomplices Burkhard Garweg and Ernst-Volker Staub, offering a reward of 150,000 euros.
[15][16] It was pointed out that her photo as "Claudia Ivone"[17] in a capoiera club in Kreuzberg could have been found by Khesrau Behroz [de] and Bellingcat researcher[18][19] Michael Colborne, using the face biometrics software PimEyes[20][21] for the Legion: Most Wanted podcast.
The Lower Saxon authorities gave a live press conference announcing the arrest of the former terrorist, who had been wanted for 30 years.
Lower Saxony's Interior Minister Daniela Behrens (SPD) spoke of a "milestone" in German crime history.