Title
Federal Public Prosecutor Buback was assassinated
Caption
The covered corpse at the scene of crime. The highest prosecutor of the Federal Republic of Germany was killed through shots from a machine gun, which were fired from a motorcycle on the 7th of April in 1977. His driver Wolfgang Göbel died as well, the severely injured judicial officer Georg Wurster died on the 13th of April. Letters of responsibility, sent to several news agencies and magazines, the "Command Ulrike Meinhof of the RAF" confessed to the attack. RAF terrorists Knut Folkerts (1980), as well as Brigitte Mohnhaupt and Christian Klar (both 1985) were sentenced to lifelong imprisonment for murder.
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Verwendung weltweit, usage worldwide
Date
Apr 07, 1977
Credit line
Photo12/dpa-pa
Reference
DPA13A03_049
License type
Rights managed
Available size
29,8Mb (1,4Mb) / 12,5in x 9,3in / 3736 x 2789 (300dpi)