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Ernst Model is a character that appears in Rainbow Six.

Biography

Ernst Model is a former member of the Red Army Faction. He was suspected to have participated in four terrorists attacks to date, three of which were regarded as failures. In 1987, Model was nearly captured in Hamburg but managed to escape after killing two policemen. He was last sighted in 1989 and was believed to be residing somewhere in Lebanon. Model kept a relatively low profile for the next decade and became the leader of a small crew of former Red Army Faction members. Erwin Guttenach, another wanted terrorist, was also a part of this crew.

In 1999, Dimitriy Popov contacted Model and paid him $600K in D-marks to take hostages at a commercial bank Bern, Switzerland. Model and his crew accomplished this under the guise of a botched bank robbery. Not long after the start of their negotiations with police, however, Model made the fatal mistake of killing a hostage in order to show his resolve and ideological purity. He then had another hostage, Hans Richter, carry the body out of the building for display before being escorted to safety. This proved to be Model's downfall as it not only complicated attempts to negotiate their escape but it prompted the Swiss Government to give Rainbow approval to rescue the hostages. Additionally, Richter was able to identify Model after being shown old pictures of him.

Model continued to negotiate with police and eventually threatened to kill a hostage every thirty minutes unless his crew was given a car to a helicopter a few blocks away, and from there to the airport. Model then stated that should the thirty minutes expire, he will start killing hostages every fifteen minutes until their demands are met and that they had more than enough hostages to do this for several hours. Once his deadline had elapsed, Model grabbed a hostage named Mario Donatello and prepared to execute him. Before he could do this, Team 2 breached the facility and dispatched the terrorists. Model was killed by Eddie Price with a shot to the head.

Popov had watched the raid unfold from a nearby crowd of onlookers. Unsurprised by Model's failure to escape, Popev made his way to Model's hideout to recover his money. Upon reaching it, he found a young man, presumed to be Model's lover, and executed him. It is later revealed that Model and his crew were pawns in the Phoenix Group's plan to increase terrorism awareness in order for Bill Hendrickson to secure a contract for Global Security to provide security at the Sidney Summer Games.

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