GERMAN investigators said today that they were working through hundreds of new tips on the whereabouts of two fugitive suspected ex-members of the left-wing militant Red Army Faction (RAF) following the arrest last month of their former comrade after decades in hiding.

Daniela Klette was arrested on February 26 in Berlin, where she had been living under a false identity. Police later found a cache of weapons at her apartment.

Ms Klette is accused of participating in a string of robberies between 1999 and 2016, after RAF was disbanded. 

She is suspected of robbery and attempted murder together with two other suspected ex-members of RAF who remain on the run, Ernst-Volker Staub and Burkhard Garweg.

RAF, which emerged from German student protests against the Vietnam war, launched a campaign against US imperialism and capitalist oppression of workers. It claimed to have disbanded in 1998.

Investigators said in a statement that they now believe Mr Garweg spent time at Ms Klette’s apartment and that he himself has lived at various locations in Berlin for many years. 

They said they also found evidence that they linked to Mr Staub at the apartment. IDs and driving licences found there showed that Ms Klette had been using four aliases.