The World - News from Sept. 2, 1987
A senior West Berlin judge was shot and wounded near his home, and police said they suspect that leftist Revolutionary Cells urban guerrillas carried out the “knee-capping” attack. Judge Guenter Korbmacher, head of a West German judicial department responsible for the controversial area of political asylum, was shot twice in the left leg as he walked from his home in the suburb of Lichterfelde. A judiciary official said Korbmacher was taken to a hospital but was not critically wounded.
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