According to reports, German officials said the detained 27-year-old's mother has no relation whatsoever to Meyer.
The RAF-linked Meyer was born in 1956, while the mother of the woman arrested in the Perissos district of Athens was born in 1958. The latter also lives permanently in Greece with another two sons, while the woman's father is permanently employed at a Berlin penitentiary as a musicologist.
In a statement issued on Sunday, the woman's mother lambasted the arrest, charging that it was due to the fact that she, the mother, shares the same name with the RAF fugitive, i.e. "Barbara Meyer". (ANA-MPA) She also issued a stinging condemnation over the way certain media outlets reported her daughter's arrest, calling for "certain reporters to be led before justice".
Beyond the now defunct RAF connection, Greek anti-terrorism authorities said they are focusing on the 27-year-old woman's links with four suspects arrested last week for a previous bomb attack against a power company worksite in the northern city of Thessaloniki.
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