German guerrilla suspects are arrested in France

By With Analysis from Monitor Correspondents around the world; Edited by Debra K. Piot

May 7, 1980

Paris

Five women suspected of belonging to West Germany's BaaderMeinhoff urban guerrilla group were arrested in a Paris apartment, French police said Tuesday. Amomg the five was Siglinde Hofmann, wanted in con nection with the 1977 murder of banker Jorgen Ponto in Frankfurt.