Klaus Croissant (24 May 1931 – 28 March 2002) was a lawyer of the

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, later an East German spy and a political activist for Berlin's Alternative Liste für Demokratie und Umweltschutz and, after 1990, the

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. Croissant was shown by

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, then Attorney General of Germany, "to have organized his cabinet the operational reserve of West German terrorism". A campaign against his imprisonment was organized in which, in particular,

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and Michel Foucault took part. He was released on

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and absconded to France on 10 July 1977. He was apprehended in Paris on 30 September. He applied for political asylum but his plea was rejected by the court of criminal appeal of the

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and an extradition order made on 16 November 1977 despite some protests in Germany, France and Italy. He was extradited to

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the following day. In a platform published in ''Le Monde'' on 2 November 1977, Gilles Deleuze and

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wrote: He was sentenced to two-and-a-half years' imprisonment for supporting a designated terrorist organization. After his release, Croissant started to work for the Stasi, which registered him, in 1981, as ''Inoffizieller Mitarbeiter'' "IM Taler", Reg. Nr. XV/5231/81. His girlfriend, the taz-publisher and green member of the European Parliament Brigitte Heinrich, was led by Croissant to join his work for the Stasi till her death in 1987. In 1992, his collaboration with the Stasi was made public.Klaus Marxen, Gerhard Werle (Hrsg.
''Strafjustiz und DDR-Unrecht: Dokumentation. Spionage, Band 4''
Walter de Gruyter, 2004, , S. 19

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* "Erinnerung an einen Freund oder Die Amsterdamer Gewissenserforschung" (Remembering a friend or researching conscience in Amsterdam)by Gaspard Dünkelsbühler in ''Fern und nah, Gesichter, Stimmen 1950 – 70'', 2003 * Peter O. Chotjewitz: ''Mein Freund Klaus'' (''My friend Klaus''), Berlin 2007, Verbrecher Verlag, {{DEFAULTSORT:Croissant, Klaus 1931 births 2002 deaths East German spies People from Kirchheim unter Teck Party of Democratic Socialism (Germany) politicians 20th-century German lawyers People extradited from France People extradited to Germany Stasi officers Jurists from Baden-Württemberg