Germany: Red Army Faction cache barrel found in forest Authorities found documents and cases with unknown liquids purported to belong to the defunct far-left terrorist group Red Army Faction, dating back to the 1980s. Three members of the organization are still at large. The left-wing terrorist group RAF emerged from German student protests against the Vietnam War Forestry workers near the German city of Hamburg found a barrel containing material that belonged to the far-left Red Army Faction (RAF) group, police in the state of Lower Saxony said on Sunday. Workers were pruning trees in the Seevetal area, south of Hamburg, when they found the plastic barrel, which included documents from the 1980s and containers with unknown liquids.