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39th year  -  N° 310                 Tuesday, 5 November 2024         Antwerpen		
Through the Night Softly
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Sunday 27th of June 1993

31 years ago



Member of the Rote Armee Fraktion Wolfgang Grams presumably shoots himself in the head during a shootout with a GSG-9-Einsatz police squad at the age of 40 in Bahnhof Bad Kleinen, Bad Kleinen, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany.


During the shootout Grams killed officer Michael Oskar 'Shorty' Newrzella and suffered five gunshot wounds himself before falling down platform 3/4. During the operation his 36-year-old girlfriend and RAF member Birgit Hogefeld was arrested. Shortly after the operation there were allegations that Grams had not shot himself but was executed with a shot in the head from close range by a GSG 9 officer but they were upheld by five different courts.