busload of Soviet Jews in Hungary in 1991 and extended her sentence to 12 years in prison, the BosNewsLife News Center in Budapest learned.
47-year old Andrea Klump, who has been linked to Germany’s ultra-left Red Army Faction (RAF), was found guilty by a state court in Stuttgart on 32 counts of being an accessory to attempted murder.
Six people, including four passengers and two policemen escorting the bus, were injured when a remote-controlled 25 kilogram (55 pound) bomb detonated a few seconds early near the Budapest airport. A police escort car that was driving ahead of the bus to the terminal took the brunt of the blast, the first such terror attack on Hungarian soil.
It lead to increased security around the Budapest airport, as Hungarian government officials pledged the government would remain committed to Russian Jews emigrating to Israel via Hungary.
PALESTINIAN GROUP
In a statement, the court accused Klump of carrying out the bombing along with accomplice Horst Ludwig Meyer for a Palestinian group, "Movement for the Freedom of Jerusalem," which claimed responsibility for the attack.
Investigators said they found DNA evidence in 2001 linking Klump to a Budapest apartment at the time of the attack. The Jerusalem Post newspaper quoted presiding Judge Udo Heissler as saying that Klump was guilty of assisting "a particularly abominable act" by renting apartments and helping prepare the assailants’ escape.
Klump denied direct involvement in the attack and has insisted she never belonged to the RAF, which launched more than two decades of attacks against NATO and industrial targets in Germany and Europe until renouncing violence in 1992. The group declared itself disbanded in 1998.
TRAVELING TO BUDAPEST
However Klump admitted to the court last month that she had traveled to Budapest in September of that year and stayed nearly three months saying she knew that Meyer was there on "a mission ordered by Palestinian militants", The Jerusalem Post reported. She reportedly also admitted to managing bookkeeping for the two of them, renting apartments and handling travel plans.
The Stuttgart state court ruled that she must serve a total of 12 years in prison. Klump already serves a nine-year jail sentence imposed in 2001 for attempted murder, hostage-taking and blackmail during a failed 1988 attack against a nightclub, popular with US servicemen near the Spanish city of Cadiz, BosNewsLife monitored.
She was captured in Vienna, Austria, in September 1999 over the Spanish attack, several media said. Meyer, who was with her at the time, was apparently shot dead while resisting arrest.
