From Reuters:
German police have uncovered an underground website for child pornography with nearly 90,000 users and arrested the suspected operator of the platform, prosecutors said on Thursday.
The "Elysium" platform, built as a forum, has existed since the end of 2016 and was only accessible via the so-called Darknet, Frankfurt public prosecutor's office and BKA Federal Police said in a statement.
Police had arrested several users of the website, mainly in Germany and Austria, it said. Among them was the suspected operator of the platform, a 39-year-old man living in the district of Limburg-Weilburg north of Frankfurt.
The website had more than 87,000 users and was used for the worldwide exchange of child pornography and to make appointments for the sexual abuse of children, prosecutors said.
"Among the child pornographic images and video files exchanged by the members of the platform were recordings of the most serious sexual abuse of children, including toddlers and depiction of sexual violence against children," it said.
The suspected operator was arrested on June 12 when police raided his apartment and seized the server of the platform.
The statement did not say how many people had been arrested, adding that more details of the case would be made available at a news conference on Friday.
(Reporting by Michael Nienaber; editing by Andrew Roche)
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-germany-sexcrimes-idUSKBN19R0VD?il=0
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GeorgeHodelDidit ago
Since the end of 2016? Maybe Alefantis and Podesta had to send all their business here for a while?
Apeabel ago
Could be. There were worldwide busts after Trump took office. (Such as this or this one.)
They aren't gone but I hope they're sweating their balls off right now.
Are_we__sure ago
Why do people continually lie about child porn arrests that only happened
Your second link was about Playpen. They arrested the owner of that site in 2015 and after that there was a series of arrests and trials. It only wrapped up this year.
Your first link is way worse. It might be the worst example ever of someone giving Trump credit he doesn't deserve. The first arrests in Operation Avalanche was in 1999.
It was even thinking millennium.
Where did get such nonsense? Someone lied to you.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Avalanche_(child_pornography_investigation)
Apeabel ago
Hold on there. I never said nothing was being done about those fillthy degenerates before Trump. The timeframe of Trump getting into office just fit because since then more has been happening.
Of course we have great members of law enforcement agencies worldwide that tried to cut out this cancer from society long before the last US election. I was mostly just getting at how we'd not be seeing those large-scale arrest, especially in the US, if Clinton had gotten the office.
And you can't really deny that the crackdown on pedophiles has been increasing in these past few months: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/alert-child-pornography-16-alberta-men-arrested-1.4193120 https://www.rt.com/news/387317-pedophile-ring-arrested-playpen/ http://tapnewswire.com/2016/11/nearly-400-children-rescued-348-adults-arrested-canadian-child-pornography/ http://starlocalmedia.com/planocourier/news/updated-arrested-in-collin-county-sheriff-s-child-pornography-sting/article_8816c672-3a5a-11e7-8132-9fce01b63508.html
Are_we__sure ago
You cited two case one from 2015 and one from 1999. They have nothing to do with Trump.
That is a fact. Your argument is not supported by your evidence. In fact it refutes your argument.
Flat out nonsense.
Why do you think any of those links have to do with Trump? Do you think he's the president of Canada? 2 of your links are about Canada and one is about the Playpen case, the same 2015 case you mentioned before.
So, yeah. It's real easy to deny.
The forth case sounds like the fedeal, state, local task forces that have been funded for several years.
Apeabel ago
I don't think so. Believe what you want about Clinton but I seriously doubt we'd be seeing these busts with this frequency if Podesta had any position in the current government. Of course the investigations have been going on for years. I'm not arguing for Trump. In fact, I don't want to give him credit for law enforcement work. I don't think these cases have links to Trump. What I do think is that pedophile rings aren't backyard operations. They are interconnected and international. People in positions of power are involved.
Ultimately, this is just good, uninterrupted work from police all around the globe. I'm not giving Trump credit for that. I'm saying he wants it to happen and doens't meddle with it. And I'd wager he's also not opposed to arrests happening while he's in office, even if the investigations leadint to these arests have been going on since before his presidency.
Are_we__sure ago
You're assuming a lot of facts not in evidence. Particularly this one.
In this case, a website was shut down. It doesn't take people in power to run a website.
Apeabel ago
Well, I agree. I can't say for sure that people in positions of power are directly involved in pedophile rings. What is a fact is that powerful people have been pedophiles. And I'm not talking about celebrities like Charlie Chaplin or Elvis.
It's just sad that this is still going on in an organised fashion. Not to mention singular individuals who do it.
LionElTrump ago
It's money AND pleasure, sure think so also