1991 United States embassy sniper attack in Bonn

On February 13, 1991, three members of the Red Army Faction (RAF) fired about 250 rounds using a military rifle at the United States embassy in Bonn, Germany.[1]

1991 United States embassy sniper attack in Bonn
The former embassy in Bonn, pictured in 1990
Location	Bonn, Germany
Date	February 13, 1991 (UTC+01:00)
Deaths	0
Injured	0
Perpetrator	Red Army Faction

The suspects fired at the embassy from a distance of about 500 metres[2] from Villa Von-Weiß-Straße 8, located across the Rhine river in Königswinter. The incident was linked to the ongoing Gulf War. In a note left at the scene, the RAF said the attack was done to combat American imperialism and to get it out of Iraq.[3] The attackers escaped their positions in a stolen Volkswagen Passat car and were never caught. The embassy received some bullet holes and broken windows, but no major damage was caused.[4]

The same G1 rifle was used by the RAF in the killing of Detlev Karsten Rohwedder afterwards.[5]

In October 2001, new DNA tests of a hair left in the passenger seat of the Passat revealed that Daniela Klette may have been one of the suspects.[6] Klette is an RAF member who was already suspected in other attacks, such as the prison bombing in Weiterstadt in 1993.[7] Klette remains at large and nobody else has ever been convicted for the attack.