The <i style="">Süddeutsche Zeitungdaily said German President Horst Köhler would formally consider the request for clemency from Christian Klar, a convicted leader of the Red Army Faction, on Wednesday after Klar's petition received the backing of the son of slain federal prosecutor Siegfried Buback.
Buback was the first victim of a bloody period dubbed the "German Autumn" when he was shot in his car by RAF gunmen on a motorcycle in the city of Karlsruhe.
Buback's son Michael wrote in the paper that he had reliable information from anonymous sources connected to the now-disbanded group that Klar was not involved in the 1977 murder of his father.
