BERLIN, Feb. 19 (UPI) -- After a German court last week granted parole to a far-left convicted terrorist, another former killer may be set free soon.
Eva Sybille Haule, a former member of the Red Army Faction, currently detained in a Berlin prison, may be freed later this year as her minimum detention time of 21 years runs out in August.
The Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung newspaper said a court is already probing whether she qualifies to be released before having served her full life sentence, which in Germany runs to 25 years.
Haule was arrested in 1986 and sentenced to life in prison for murder in three cases and attempted murder in 23 cases. She is considered to have played a key role in the planning of a bombing of a NATO training facility in Oberammergau, Bavaria. It is also widely believed that she was part of the 1985 commando operation that executed Ernst Zimmermann, a leading German industrialist.
Last Monday, a court in Stuttgart decided to grant parole to Brigitte Mohnhaupt, one of the RAF's leaders in the late 1970s and early 1980s. She will be released at the end of March after 24 years in prison.
Germany's President Horst Koehler is currently considering whether he will pardon Christian Klar, another RAF terrorist whose minimum time in prison doesn't run out until 2009.
Nearly 30 years after the terrorists caused havoc in what is now considered the "German Autumn" and the country's worst period of terror, the debate over releasing the former terrorists has become controversial.
