Fashion designer Lagerfeld was on Red Army Faction's list
German terrorists once planned to kidnap fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld as part of a scheme to free fellow guerrillas from jail.
A former member of the Red Army Faction, also known as the Baader-Meinhof gang, which terrorised Germany throughout the 1970s and 80s with murders, kidnappings and bank robberies, said Lagerfeld was viewed as a perfect target because of his personal wealth.
Convicted terrorist Peter-Jürgen Boock, who is out of prison having served 17 years, said the designer was the most prominent of "an array of people with a large fortune on whom we collected information with a view to kidnapping them"...[and securing] a ransom, which it wanted to use to rent flats and obtain cars and weapons to free gang members Andreas Baader, Gudrun Ensslin and Jan-Carl Raspe, who were standing trial, from jail.
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A former member of the Red Army Faction, also known as the Baader-Meinhof gang, which terrorised Germany throughout the 1970s and 80s with murders, kidnappings and bank robberies, said Lagerfeld was viewed as a perfect target because of his personal wealth.
Convicted terrorist Peter-Jürgen Boock, who is out of prison having served 17 years, said the designer was the most prominent of "an array of people with a large fortune on whom we collected information with a view to kidnapping them"...[and securing] a ransom, which it wanted to use to rent flats and obtain cars and weapons to free gang members Andreas Baader, Gudrun Ensslin and Jan-Carl Raspe, who were standing trial, from jail.