New victim of German state terror
Socialist Press1977 1977-11-23Read it in the scan (PDF), scan page 2 →
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Yet another member of the Red Army Faction (RAF) guerilla unit has fallen victim to the ravages of the West German state.
On the night of November 12 Ingrid Schubert, a founder member of the unit, was 'discovered' hanging from her cell window in MunichStadelheim prison.
According to the bourgeois daily Suddeutsche Zeitung the astonished prison governor was struck dumb by the news.
Gathering his thoughts together he feebly suggested thai the guards, supposed to be keeping a 24-hour-a-day watch on her, had somehow or other missed catching her cut up and knot a bed-sheet. black out her cell door window and take her own life. changing shifts.
Hers was the sixth case of an RAF member dying while in confinement in a German jail.
To prevent even the smallest ripple of suspicion reaching those commentators who had gone some way towards questioning the circumstances surrounding the previous deaths, the Bavarian Minister for Justice acted quickly.
He summoned an immediate post-mortem examination of the body. Pending laboratory tests the verdict of 'suicide with no evidence of outside influence was pronounced.
This will certainly suffice to ensure that the fake-lefts in the SPD withdraw their demands for a full debate over the deaths during the = week annual 2an! 0222s presently ande: 53! [ HE=Workers in West Germany however must see in this death yet another reason to press ahead in their demands for a workers' enquiry into the incidents.
That the struggles of these terrorist fighters against oppression have proved futile is now clear. Their methods have served only to give a veneer of legitimacy to yet more turns of the repressive screw throughout the country.
Yet far from obscuring the class nature of the state and rallying the country round the government's demand to "hunt out the terrorists" their deaths must lay bare for all to see the real purpose and nature of the state.
Plain now for all workers To see is the depths to whist dougecis "justice" will w7asiastedly ans to presene =s