Child abuse: The shocking number of the day: 30.000 Suspicious

thirty thousand. The North Rhine-Westphalian justice Minister Peter Biesenbach (CDU) needed on Monday morning, a few minutes to start, until he announced the shocking number of the day. Biesenbach wanted to tell the media that it will be in North Rhine-Westphalia, in short, a prosecution task force to combat child abuse.

Pure Burger

Political correspondent in North Rhine-Westphalia.

In the case of the Prosecutor's office of Cologne-based "Central and response Cybercrime centre of North Rhine-Westphalia" (ZAC) will deal Wednesday to six state lawyers exclusively with the prosecution of the so-called network konnexen child abuse. Lügde, Bergisch Gladbach, Germany and, most recently, Münster had become a sad synonym for the most serious offences. They also presented the justice in front of enormous challenges, said Biesenbach. to illustrate

the Dimension at least in the approach, called the Minister of justice finally, the egregious number of 30,000. Against so many as yet unknown suspects is the state of Gladbach identify lawyers in the Causa of Bergisch. The more than 100 criminal investigators comprehensive investigation group of the "mountain" had come in the past year, in all of the länder, active Pädokriminellen network on the track; 70 in particular known Suspect they had been previously in the glance.

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"such A huge amount of like-minded people with little tech - savvy offenders offers every possibility to come to relevant image and video material," said Biesenbach. "We need to recognize that a child is widespread abuse in the network, as we have previously assumed."

the findings of The investigation teams, "mountain", and since a few weeks also in the case of Münster-based investigative group "Rose" to make it clear how frightening dynamically the Pädokriminellen Milieu in the age of digitalization has been further developed. The dissolution is progressing in every aspect furious. In virtually all cases of abuse are there according to the evaluation of Bach Tucks a new Dimension of Tatgeschehens. "The acts are not only committed by individual perpetrators, but in a networked, Online-netting from sympathizers, supporters, helpers and accomplices.

"the benefit of The perpetrators of all the possibilities that offers the network", said the Minister of justice. Disguised and under a pseudonym in chat groups and messenger services, projected photos and video clips of their deeds exchanged. In public and private groups to exchange advice about child abuse. People who have committed no abuse, would be encouraged by others to do so, or even pushed to do so.