page_title: Knut Folkerts
section_title: Time with the RAF and arrest
hierarchical_section_title: Knut Folkerts / Time with the RAF and arrest
caption_attribution_description: Picture of a memorial stone for Arie Kranenburg, a Dutch police officer from Utrecht who was murdered by Knut Folkerts a member of the Rote Armee Fraktion at the Croeselaan in Utrecht NL.
context_page_description: Knut Detlef Folkerts is a former member of the terrorist group, the Red Army Faction.
  In 1977 he was sentenced to 20 years in prison in the Netherlands for murder. Later he was convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment in West Germany for crimes including the murder of public prosecutor Siegfried Buback: however he was then released from prison in 1995 when doubts were raised about the reliability of the original conviction in Germany.
context_section_description: Folkerts was sentenced in a Frankfurt court together with Willy-Peter Stoll for the robbery of a firearms business on 1 July 1977. In an interview in 2007 he denied any involvement.
  On 22 September 1977 Folkerts and Elisabeth von Dyck set out to return a car to a Dutch car rental business. The car had been rented by Sigrid Sternebeck and used in connection with the kidnapping and murder of Hanns Martin Schleyer. The surroundings were under surveillance and the police tried to arrest Folkerts. Folkerts fatally shot Dutch policeman Arie Kranenburg (born 10 June 1931) and seriously wounded a second officer. Folkerts was arrested, Elisabeth von Dyck, originally mistaken for Brigitte Mohnhaupt, managed to escape.
  The German authorities offered Folkerts a new identity in the USA and one million Deutschmarks if he agreed to betray the hiding place of Hanns Martin Schleyer. Folkerts claimed later that the BKA at the same time threatened him with hanging if he rejected the offer.
caption: Memorial plate for policeman Arie Kranenburg in Utrecht
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