A member of the Red Army Faction terrorist group has said in her autobiography that German Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer housed her in 1973, the magazine Focus reports in its Monday issue.
In her 1999 book, Margrit Schiller said Fischer welcomed her in his Frankfurt home for several days.
Fischer defended his radical leftist past before parliament on Wednesday, one day after testifying in the murder trial of Hans-Joachim Klein, a former comrade from their activist days in Frankfurt.
The German foreign minister told parliament he regretted scuffling with police officers and throwing rocks during demonstrations, but firmly denied claims by convicted terrorist "Carlos the Jackal" that he allowed arms to be stored in a house he shared with Greens party colleague Daniel Cohn-Bendit.
Questions about Fischer's past, which the foreign minister has never denied, resurfaced earlier this month when a magazine printed photographs of a 25-year-old Fischer beating a police officer at a demonstration in 1973.
Fischer has apologized to the officer for the attack -- MUNICH, Germany (AFP)
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