Overview

• The court reconvened after nearly two weeks, opening with testimony from two police officers on Klette’s custody statements and behavior.
• Prosecutors accuse the 66-year-old of orchestrating armed robberies across Niedersachsen, Nordrhein-Westfalen and Schleswig-Holstein between 1999 and 2016, including an attempted murder charge for a 2015 cash-transporter shooting.
• Verden’s former four-hectare riding hall was converted into a high-security courtroom featuring fences, barbed wire, video surveillance and climate control to accommodate over 450 participants.
• Klette’s defence branded the makeshift courtroom “completely oversized” and filed motions to move future hearings back to the Landgericht Verden to avoid a presumption of guilt.
• The two-year rental agreement, extendable if needed, reflects expectations of a lengthy trial as authorities continue to pursue alleged accomplices Ernst-Volker Staub and Burkhard Garweg.