Duisburg: Smell large Darknet network for child pornography!

Duisburg: Smell large Darknet network for child pornography!

Duisburg - In a remarkable campaign, the investigative authorities have shut down a far -reaching platform in the Darknet, which distributed child pornographic content. NRW Interior Minister Herbert Reul (CDU) commented on the words that the dimension of the case was "dizzyingly large", since the number of users on the website went to hundreds of thousands.

In September, a large -scale search took place in six federal states. With these extensive measures, the investigators were able to ensure a variety of evidence. A total of 1517 asservates, including laptops and cell phones, were confiscated. The amount of seizures is particularly impressive: the DVDs and video cassettes that the officials found alone filled 94 moving boxes. The ministerial spokesman said that the exact amount of data could not yet be determined, but a frightening size of 13.5 terabytes on the computer was discovered one of the suspects. This alone corresponds to around 3.4 million digital images.

the suspects and their backgrounds

The investigation is directed against a group of men between the ages of 43 and 69, whose places of residence extend across Germany, including in North Rhine-Westphalia, Schleswig-Holstein, Baden-Württemberg, Lower Saxony, Rhineland-Palatinate and Bavaria. Six of these suspects are now in custody.

These men are identified as the "leading backers" of the switched off Darknet platform and are suspected of having gang pornographic content. The data that circulated on the platform contained frightening image and video files in which the sexual abuse of minor girls was mapped. Such criminal acts are not only morally reprehensible, they also represent a serious crime and are prosecuted in Germany.

The action for the decommissioning of the platform shows how seriously the authorities are against the abuse of children and the spread of abuse depictions. The dimension of the secured material indicates that this is an extremely extensive and systematic crime structure. By ensuring massive evidence, the investigators have taken an important step in combating this severe form of crime.

On the next steps in the investigation that aims to investigate this extensive spread of child pornographic content, Minister Reul informed. The sensitization of the public for such topics remains essential, since the police will be busy evaluating the confiscated material in the coming weeks and months.

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