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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/03/25/wred25.xml Killers told: you must renounce terrorism By Tony Paterson in Berlin, Sunday Telegraph Last Updated: 12:01am GMT 25/03/2007 Relatives of the 34 people killed by Germany's Red Army Faction terrorist gang have called on its former members to come clean about their murderous past, days before one of the guerrilla group's leaders is to be freed from jail. Corinna Ponto, the daughter of the former Dresdner Bank chief Jürgen Ponto, told The Sunday Telegraph yesterday that she wanted her father's killers to state clearly that they now recognised that terrorism was wrong. Miss Ponto, 49, also demanded that the terror group's former members have the "courage and decency" to explain the background to the wave of shootings, kidnappings and bombings they carried out in the 1970s and 1980s. "We need to know who gave them financial backing and who planned the murders," she said. "We still don't know important truths about the Red Army Faction. The subject continues to traumatise Germany. "These days we are made increasingly aware of the evil of terrorism. Former terrorists have a duty to make it absolutely clear that they share this conviction." On Tuesday, the terrorist Brigitte Mohnhaupt, 57, once labelled "the most evil and dangerous woman in Germany", <file:///C:/news/main.jhtml;jsessionid=LCRPBXYWCQPA1QFIQMFCFFOAVCBQYIV0?xml= /news/2007/02/12/wmein112.xml> is to be released after serving her minimum term of 24 years for her role in nine murders carried out by the group. Mohnhaupt was a leader of a "second generation" of the Left-wing, urban guerrilla group which declared war on West Germany's "capitalist establishment" in the late 1960s, ostensibly because it had not destroyed all links with the Nazi era. Mohnhaupt, who has never expressed remorse for her crimes or apologised to the relatives of her victims, was sentenced to five terms of life imprisonment plus 15 years at her trial in 1985. But last month German appeal court judges agreed to free her on the grounds that she no longer posed a threat to society. Prison psychiatrists describe Mohnhaupt as now being an "ordinary middle-aged woman". Yet she remains a mystery to the outside world. She has never given an interview and there is only one known photograph of her in prison. The remainder were taken during her adolescence. Fellow former Red Army Faction members say Mohnhaupt is unlikely to express any remorse for her crimes once freed. Her early release has caused controversy in Germany. Liberal and Left politicians have greeted the decision as the mark of a humane society and have pointed out that former Nazi war criminals have not had to serve the full sentences imposed on jailed Red Army Faction terrorists. However, relatives of the group's victims, and some conservative politicians, have expressed dismay at Mohnhaupt's early release because of her failure to show any remorse. Dirk Schleyer, son of the German industrialist Hanns-Martin Schleyer who was kidnapped and subsequently shot dead by the faction in 1977, said: "I can't understand why Mohnhaupt should be freed. In 30 years she never uttered one word of apology for killing my father." Miss Ponto was 19 when in 1977 Mohnhaupt and another of terrorist, Christian Klar, went to her family's villa near Frankfurt. They drew pistols and as Mr Ponto pushed Klar away, Mohnhaupt fired five shots into her victim, killing him instantly. Klar, 54, who was convicted of nine murders and 11 attempted murders, is still in jail, with two more years of a 26-year sentence to serve before he is eligible for release. In a recent letter, he called for the "defeat of capitalism". 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