Meinhof had torn a towel into long strips, and twisted the strips into a rope. She stood on a stool under the window, carefully threaded the rope through the small mesh grating, wrapped the other end of the rope around her neck, and kicked the stool aside. The death is ruled suicide by strangulation at the post-mortem held later in the afternoon. The findings of the examination so far available give no grounds for suspecting any extraneous factors. Later, the findings of the two postmortems are called into question by those believing Meinhof to have been murdered, but no convincing counter-evidence is ever presented.
Bombs go off in Nice and Paris, France, and at the American air base in Frankfurt.
16 May, Berlin Meinhof's funeral is held at Holy Trinity Protestant Cemetery in the Mariendorf section of West Berlin. Thousands of supporters attend. 27 June, Entebbe, Uganda An Air France Airbus is hijacked en route from Tel Aviv to Paris, and touches down in terrorist-friendly Uganda. When the hostages were rescued, an angry Ugandan president, Idi Amin, reportedly showed up at the hospital to personally strangle her with his bare hands. 7 July, Berlin Monika Berberich of the Baader-Meinhof Gang escapes from Lehrterstrasse maximum security prison in Berlin, along with Movement 2 June members Inge Viett, Gabrielle Rollnick , and Juliane Plambeck .