The Weiterstadt prison bombing occurred on 27 March 1993, when the Red Army Faction (RAF) Command Katharina Hammerschmidt bombed and destroyed a newly built prison in Weiterstadt, near Frankfurt am Main in Germany. It was the RAF's "last anticapitalist attack" before it dissolved.[1] Nobody was harmed in the explosion of the empty prison. Estimates of damage varied widely. Perpetrators were linked 14 years later through DNA evidence in skimasks left behind.In February 2024 Daniela Klette, one of the 4 perpetrators was arrested.
On 27 March 1993, at least three armed and masked men and a woman climbed the 6m high wall of the newly built prison in Weiterstadt, using a rope ladder, entering the guardhouse around 1 am. The terrorists tied and abducted the 10 guards and locked them in a van near a landfill. They identified themselves as RAF`s Command Katharina Hammerschmidt to the guards. They warned the population with signs that the prison was about to be blown up and asked them to get to safety.