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Pedophile network: Investigators find more than a hundred thousand children's porn
Published on April 8, 2025
Hanover.It was a nationwide response from the Hanover police department against a suspected pedophile network: Seven suspects in collaboration with the Bamberg General Prosecutor's Office in September last year after searches in Bavaria, Thuringia, Schleswig-Holstein, Berlin and North Rhine-Westphalia.The accusation: As part of a gang on relevant children's pornography platforms in the Darknet, they are said to have made photos and videos of sexual abuse accessible or actively shared.
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Arrest warrants against five accused were taken out of enforcement
The Bamberg General Prosecutor now announced that arrest warrants have now been decided against five of the seven accused.The Attorney General has taken over the investigation.
On the previously evaluated data carriers of the accused, children's pornographic content was found in a six -digit number, it said in a press release on Monday.Witnesses also justified the suspicion of the sexual abuse of children.Due to the current investigation, the execution of the pre -trial detention was no longer necessary to encounter a risk of darkening.The investigation continued.
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Suspected suspicion of abuse of a twelve -year -old does not confirm
The arrest warrants against the other two accused were lifted in January 2025.The suspicion of the gang distribution of child pornographic content could not be maintained, even if it can be assumed that the accused would have exchanged relevant material with each other.The suspicion of sexual abuse of a twelve -year -old boy in Erfurt has not yet been confirmed.
The arrests were related to the police in Hanover, and as a result in April 2024, 19 suspects in Germany and France.In the course of the impact against the pedophile network, the investigators also closed an online platform, in which pedophiles under the guise of musical talent promotion contained contacts with minors.In the supposed forum for fans of children's stars, pedophile men swap pictures, recordings and CDs of young talents for decades - also from the Hannover boy choir.