Arrest over ’77 terrorist attack

GERMAN authorities say they have arrested a former terrorist suspected of involvement in the 1977 murder of then West German federal prosecutor Siegfried Buback.

Federal prosecutors said yesterday that 57-year-old Verena Becker was detained on Thursday at her Berlin home.

Prosecutors launched a fresh investigation into Buback’s assassination earlier this year based in part on the analysis of new DNA samples. They believe Becker played a key role in the planning and carrying out of the April 7, 1977, attack that left Buback and two others dead.