Musi wa5 Gunyana 1977, RAF 'commando unit' yakarwisa motokari ine chauffeur yaitakura Hanns Martin Schleyer, panguva iyoyo mutungamiri wesangano revashandirwi veGerman, muCologne. Mutyairi wake, Heinz Marcisz, 41, akamanikidzwa kumbomira apo ngoro yevana yakangoerekana yaonekwa mumugwagwa pamberi pavo. Motokari yemapurisa yaivaperekedza yakatadza kumira nenguva, ndokupinda mumotokari yaSchleyer. Vane (kana zvichida vashanu) nhengo dzeRAF dzakafukidzwa dzakapfira pfuti uye pfuti dzepfuti mumotokari mbiri, dzichiuraya Marcisz nemupurisa, Roland Pieler, 20, uyo akanga akagara pachigaro chekumashure chemotokari yemutyairi waMarcisz.
5 September 1977