Operation Leo

[citation needed] The Red Army Faction devised the plan as a direct consequence of the outcome of the 1975 West German embassy siege in Stockholm.

[citation needed] After the Swedish and German governments had employed stalling tactics the terrorists became impatient and allegedly started planning a violent break-out.

[citation needed] One terrorist, Siegfried Hausner, died from injuries sustained in the explosion in Stammheim Prison after being flown to Germany.

[citation needed] The group intended to put the minister in a wooden box so as to prevent her from hearing or seeing anything and subsequently moving her to another location.

[citation needed] Before the plan could be put into action the police arrested the entire group in an operation code-named "Ebba Röd".

Norbert Kröcher's explosives bag, exhibited in the Police Museum
The box in which Anna Greta Leijon was to be kidnapped, exhibited in the Police Museum