Frankfurt - An accomplice of Carlos the Jackal was jailed for nine years yesterday by a German court which found him guilty of murder during the urban guerrilla's hostage raid on an OPEC oil ministers' meeting in Vienna in 1975.
Hans-Joachim Klein, for whom German Foreign Minister, Mr Joschka Fischer, spoke as a character witness in a trial that has turned uncomfortable attention on the Deputy Chancellor's militant past, escaped a life sentence because he aided investigators and publicly renounced terrorism. Klein (52) admitted he took part in the pro-Palestinian attack in December 1975 led by the Venezuelan-born Carlos, who is now in jail in Paris. It left three people dead but Klein, who was wounded but escaped, denied killing anyone.
