RAF | Daniela Klette in Vechta Prison: No trams, please

On May 27, 2025, my article "A Stolen Letter" appeared in the "nd" newspaper. In it, I described how a letter addressed to Daniela Klette, a prisoner in Vechta's women's correctional facility, was not to be handed over to the inmate on the grounds that it did not contain "individual communication." This letter included, among other things, an excerpt from an autobiographical, highly individual piece of writing of mine, which was published in the "Neue Berliner Illustrierte Zeitung."

Daniela Klette responded to my "nd" article. Her three-page letter, handwritten on May 31, 2025, due to a lack of a typewriter, arrived on June 18 (postmark: "170625"). The official pretrial detention mail inspector appears to be an extremely slow reader. In this letter, Daniela Klette describes how her sister wanted to send her an article about the reconstruction of a tram near Karlsruhe, which the Karlsruhe sisters had discussed during one of their biweekly phone calls. The article, in turn, was not allowed to be sent to the prison due to a lack of "individual communication."

Daniela Klette, for her part, wanted to send her sister two articles from the approved and issued newspapers. One of these articles was about street dogs in Istanbul and Athens that participate in demonstrations. The second newspaper article was about rats being trained to detect landmines. Such rats are used, for example, in Cambodia. These articles, which were also the subject of the telephone conversations between the two sisters, were not allowed to leave Vechta Prison.

I read an online legal statement stating that letters that also address the alleged offense are always confiscated as evidence. Likewise, letters with content that could jeopardize the prison's order or the purpose of detention can be seized. What a Karlsruhe tram or newspaper articles about pigeons and rats have to do with the alleged offense, or how these are supposed to jeopardize the prison's order or the purpose of detention, remains a mystery to those who prevent communication between the prisoner and her sister, as does the explanation of how this censorship measure is intended to prevent the risk of escape, obstruction of justice, or reoffending (Section 119 of the Code of Criminal Procedure: Restrictions on Grounds for Detention During Pretrial Detention, Paragraph 1).

On the very day my article "A Stolen Letter" appeared in the "nd" newspaper, I found a summons for questioning by the Federal Criminal Police Office in my mailbox. The interrogation was scheduled for June 20, 2025. The summons contained a file number and stated that I was to be questioned in a murder investigation. After my lawyer informed the BKA that the matter for questioning needed to be specified, I received a second summons stating that it was an investigation into Daniela Klette. The BKA refused to answer my question about whether I was to be questioned as a journalist.

I'm not the only one who has received a summons for questioning from the Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA). So far, several people who are or were in written contact with Daniela Klette, or who have requested visits, have been summoned to assist the BKA in expanding its knowledge. Anyone who cannot or will not provide usable statements is placed under suspicion and threatened with imprisonment. The Federal Prosecutor's Office is apparently making no progress in its investigation into Daniela Klette's alleged involvement in Red Army Faction activities, and with the summons, it is simulating a hustle and bustle that is not controlled by any constitutional institution.

On June 12, I sent the BKA a certificate from my family doctor, in which he referred to my triple-vessel coronary artery disease and wrote that I should avoid any further psychosocial stress until further notice, as this would lead to an increased risk of heart attack. The BKA was completely unimpressed and summoned me for questioning again on June 20. This is scheduled for July 22, 2025.

The BKA commissioner's email states: "I ask for your understanding that only an official medical certificate, not a private one, will be accepted to substantiate an inability to appear for questioning due to illness. If the symptoms persist, a corresponding certificate will be required. The witness summons is based on a prosecutorial order from the Federal Prosecutor General at the Federal Court of Justice (GBA). I ​​must therefore inform you of the consequences of an unjustified absence or unjustified refusal to appear for questioning. In this case, the public prosecutor's office will decide on the imposition of measures (fines, compulsory appearance, and detention) and the imposition of the costs incurred by the absence or refusal to testify in accordance with Sections 51 and 70 of the Code of Criminal Procedure."

The Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA) threatens reprimands, and what is dismissed as a minor "complaint" is actually a chronic illness, with varying periods of minor symptoms alternating with unstable and serious phases. It is therefore also referred to as chronic coronary syndrome.

The Federal Prosecutor's Office and the Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA) are apparently ignoring Article 2, Paragraph 2 of the Basic Law ("Everyone has the right to life and physical integrity") and are apparently recklessly accepting the risk of a heart attack, i.e., a concrete threat to life or serious health. The BKA deliberately ignored my family doctor's advice that a more extensive specialist cardiological examination was necessary. This cannot in any way be replaced by a medical examination by a public health officer.

The public prosecutor and the judge at the Verden court will certainly continue to speak of an "objective" trial against Daniela Klette. The trial for various money-making offenses is taking place in a specially converted riding stable. This monstrosity, created according to the judge by a purely administrative decision, is separated from a children's playground by razor wire. Objectivity is when the Federal Prosecutor's Office and the Federal Criminal Police Office dictate what should be done in the Klette criminal case. Against this act of political justice, which is stuck in its 1970s ways and cannot bear the fact that Daniela Klette was able to evade its grasp for several decades, the bells of the media-acclaimed Karlsruhe tram should ring loudly and audibly until this absurd nonsense comes to an end.