on Apr 24th, 2007Karl Lagerfeld was a target for kidnapping
German Designer Karl Lagerfeld, known for his fashion trademark of structural and dramatic women’s wear, was once a kidnapping target of the RAF (Red Army Faction) a radical left wing group in Germany.
“The comments from Peter-Juergen Boock, who has served 17 years in jail for his role in the RAF, are the latest in a string of revelations which have caused a storm in Germany. Some of his comments have sparked calls for a re-examination of the 1977 murder of a federal prosecutor.
Boock told Der Spiegel magazine the RAF had a list of possible targets for ransom in the late 1970s when it was trying to raise funds to help the group’s leaders escape from jail.
Lagerfeld was from a rich family and was already a big name in the fashion world, so seemed an ideal candidate.
“We considered kidnapping the owner of the lingerie maker Palmers factory and also Karl Lagerfeld,” Boock told Der Spiegel in an interview. “There were a row of people whom we collected material about and they were all wealthy.”
The RAF is suspected of killing 34 people between 1970 and 1991. Amongst its victims were industrialist Hanns Martin Schleyer, Deutsche Bank chief Alfred Herrhausen and Siemens board member Karl Heinz Beckurts
