Europe

Aging Baader-Meinhof Terrorists Fingered in String of Supermarket Heists to Pay for Retirement

GERIATRIC

The Baader-Meinhof gang, one of the deadliest terrorist organizations in Europe, disappeared decades ago. Now it’s back as the gang that couldn’t shoot straight.

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ROME — Karl Marx once said that “history repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.” Never is that more true than the case of three aging radical left-wing German terrorists who have been leaving tracks at the scenes of recent crimes after retiring nearly 20 years ago.

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