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Knut Folkerts

Knut Folkerts

1952

Nationality
Germany
Occupation
political activist

Knut Detlef Folkerts (born 1 January 1952 in Singen, West Germany) is a former member of the terrorist group Red Army Faction (RAF). In 1977 he was sentenced to 20 years in prison in the Netherlands for murder.

Incarceration history

Facilities

  1. JVA Celle
    Dates unknown

Biography

Knut Detlef Folkerts (born 1 January 1952 in Singen, West Germany) is a former member of the terrorist group Red Army Faction (RAF). In 1977 he was sentenced to 20 years in prison in the Netherlands for murder. Later he was convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment in West Germany for crimes including the murder of public prosecutor Siegfried Buback: however he was then released from prison in 1995 when doubts were raised about the reliability of the original conviction in Germany.

Related people

Same nationality and era where possible; falls back to shared nationality or era.

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