Overview

• Daniela Klette, 66, faces charges for 13 armed robberies and an attempted murder between 1999 and 2016, linked to over €2.7 million in stolen funds.
• Witnesses testified about her 2024 arrest in Berlin-Kreuzberg, where she lived under the alias Claudia Bernardi, revealed through fingerprint verification.
• Authorities seized significant evidence from her apartment, including weapons, a Panzerfaust replica, €240,000 in cash, and a kilogram of gold.
• Klette's arrest was triggered by a tip from a Capoeira instructor who suspected her identity; she cooperated calmly during the operation.
• Her alleged accomplices, Ernst-Volker Staub and Burkhard Garweg, remain fugitives as the trial continues under tight security at the Oberlandesgericht Celle.