In Vienna on Wednesday, September 15th 1999 the supposed RAF (Red Army
Fraction) activist Horst Ludwig Meyer was killed by a special unity of the
Austrian police, and the likewise supposed RAF-activist Andrea Klump
arrested.
About the incidents that lead to the killing and the arrest still exists
discrepancy and incredibility at the moment. According to the general
director for public security in Austria, Michael Sika, both activists had
been standing on the search list.
The bourgeois medias claim that Horst and Andrea had already attracted
attention in July 1999, and had been observed and photographed by someone
out of their neighbourhood. Both shall have attracted attention by wearing
"baseball caps and sunglasses" (Kurier). Incomprehensible stays why people
wearing baseball caps and sunglasses in the hot summer month July, shall
attract attention.
The killing action, which is suppose to be a "very big success" (Kurier),
was being started on Wednesday, September 15th 1999, through a phone call by
a woman. This person had noticed two suspicious persons in a bet office in
Vienna-Donaustadt and had immediately informed the state authorities, as
good upright citizens have to do.
When a police raid stopped the both activists Horst draw a pistol and Andrea
a knife. When one of the police officers called for reinforcement the two
supposed RAF-members could overcome the other cop and escape. Some blocks
away Horst was stopped by the special unity WEGA, while trying to open a
car. Horst is supposed to have shot first on the coming cops and have hurt
an officer with 2 shots in the legs. After this a "fiery shooting action"
(TAZ) shall have taken place, before a WEGA agent killed Horst with a shot
into his breast. Thereupon Andrea throw away her knife and got arrested.
If one can believe the bourgeois medias so it shall have lasted several
hours before the police knew who they had shot and arrested (because of
faked Italian passports). Andrea was only identified a day later by officers
of the Bundeskriminalamt (BKA) from Germany.
It is pretended that the police hasn't got any informations about duration
and aim of the stay of Horst and Andrea in Vienna. Even if the RAF dissolved
itself in 1998 the Austrian minister for interior affairs, Karl Schlögel
doesn't exclude a "political background" (TAZ).
Interesting and worth mentioning is the fact that Horst just shot his
followers into the legs, while the police had aimed to kill Horst from the
beginning on. Comparisons to the happenings at Bad Kleinen in Germany from
the year 1993 are not to be denied. During this action Wolfgang Grams died
and Birgit Hogefeld was arrested. Even still today one attracts the
attention of the German state security service if one claims that the death
of Wolfgang was murder. Just recently there were investigations against the
Rote Hilfe (red help - a left political prisoners' support group, similar to
ABC) .
If one may believe the bourgeois medias and the exclamations of the Austrian
police so the action in Vienna was more or less pure luck. If this is true
then the police machinery has got no reason to be proud, similar as in the
case of the arrest of the right-extreme Franz Fuchs.
On the other hand critical people will surely see the whole story as a lie
and a concealment tactic. And it doesn't seem to be that abstruse that the
execution of Horst Ludwig Meyer and the arrest of Andrea Klump was an issue
of the co-operation between Austrian and German state authorities, within
the agreement of Schengen.
The results of the whole action are a dead comrade, an arrested comrade
(whose future is now quite unsure), a "successful Austrian police" and a
proud minister for interior affairs, who claims that he captured a "heavy
calibre of the German terrorist scene" (TAZ).
At the moment not a lot is known about the persons of Horst Ludwig Meyer and
Andrea Klump. Except that according to the medias Horst shall have taken
part in an attack on the Siemens manager Karl-Heinz Bekkurts in 1986.
Fact is that once again a left activist was executed by state authorities
and an activist will probably have to stay behind iron bars for a long time.
Independent from the position one has to the politics and history of the
RAF, and as anarchists we certainly have more than one point to criticise,
solidarity with the political prisoners out of the RAF is very urgent.
Especially Andrea needs our support in the fight against the exterminating
system.
At the moment 8 RAF-activists are still in prison. Some of them have great
health problems and a release is more than necessary, but the authoritarian
state apparatus doesn't agree with this. Just because the activists don't
deny their political conviction and don't want to cooperate with the German
state.
Freedom for Andrea!
Solidarity with the prisoners out of the RAF!
RAF-members in prison:
Eva Haule (Frankfort, since 1986)
Brigitte Mohnhaupt (Aichach, since 1982)
Rolf Heißler (Frankfort, since 1993)
Rolf Heißler (Frankenthal, since 1979)
Christian Klar (Bruchsal, since 1982)
Rolf-Clemens Wagner (Schwalmstadt, since 1979)
Andrea Klump (Vienna, since 1999)
Adelheid Schulz (Cologne, from 1982 to 1998, at the moment break in the
arrest because of health problems)
Momentary arrest address of Andrea:
Andrea Klump
Justizanstalt Wien-Josefstadt
Wickenburggasse 18-22
A - 1082 Vienna
Anarchist Black Cross Innsbruck:
LOM
Postlagernd
6024 Innsbruck
Austria / Europe
e-mail: abcibk@hotmail.com
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