In North Rhine-Westphalia, investigators are dismantling a huge pedo-criminal network. Hundreds of thousands of people used the illegal platform for years and from all over the world. This is how the police tracked down the masterminds.
Kai-Arne Gailer described his investigations for a quarter of an hour. The chief detective spoke of the suffering he saw in the millions of files that he and his colleagues seized during a nationwide raid at the end of September. “Behind every picture, every video is the active abuse of a child,” says the 44-year-old father and pauses: “A little soul that cannot defend itself.” Hundreds of thousands of users have watched these scenes over and over again – secretly on the Darknet , for years. And worldwide.