Bavarian investigators have struck a blow against operators of international child pornography platforms on the dark web. The Bavarian State Criminal Police Office (LKA) and the Cybercrime Central Office in Bamberg announced on Friday that several suspects had been arrested in the USA, Great Britain and Germany. They are said to have worked as administrators, programmers or moderators of the platforms. Three Darknet platforms have been shut down.Several thousand users from Germany and abroad were active on the platforms. They...
The old town of Bamberg has been a World Heritage Site for 30 years, which is reason to celebrate. After all, the title brings a lot of tourists and thus money to the city, and it didn't do any harm to sensitize its own citizens to their gem. And finally there is good news again.Things have been bad lately for such, apart from the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra as a source of enduring joy. Financial scandal in the town hall, a...
Vom Gate des Flughafens in Barcelona geht es nach langen Verzögerungen endlich aufs Rollfeld Richtung Chartermaschine. Nicht nur ein halbes Orchester quetscht sich in den Shuttle-Bus, sondern ein halbes Orchester samt Instrumentenkoffern. In wenigen Minuten sollen die Bamberger Symphoniker auf die Kanarischen Inseln nach Teneriffa abheben. Ein international renommierter Klangkörper auf dem Weg zum zweiten Konzert seiner Spanien-Tournee.Dann zerschneidet ein spitzes Krachen das Busbrabbeln. "Get away from there!", ruft jemand. Immer wieder, immer lauter. Erneut ein Knacken, Kratzen, Krachen. Erst jetzt...
What helps against the emigration of young people from the countryside to the cities and how protection against right-wing extremist appropriation in the countryside can be achieved are the topics of a study by the universities of Bamberg and Eichstätt. The Catholic University of Eichstätt (KU) announced on Thursday that they want to look at self-organized projects in the border triangle of Bavaria, Saxony and Thuringia.The researchers wanted to see how youth culture works in structurally and financially weak rural...
The man the police officers checked on the A 70 is now threatened with a high fine. He had used several driver cards. A truck driver controlled by police officers in the Bamberg district is said to have been behind the wheel for up to 38 hours. When driving in the past few weeks, the 40-year-old is said to have massively violated driving and rest times, as a police spokesman said on Thursday. The man used several driver cards for...
The pterosaur, scientifically named Balaenognathus maeuseri, found in a quarry in Upper Franconia, lived around 154 million years ago.Long legs, a spoon-shaped beak and more than 400 teeth, some of them hooked - scientists have discovered an unusual new species of pterosaur in a quarry in Upper Franconia. The German-English research team gave the new pterosaur the scientific name Balaenognathus maeuseri - the genus name translates as whale jaws, said the Natural History Museum in Bamberg on Tuesday. There you...
A 5.5 hectare area with a striking yellow and white wall on the northern edge of Bamberg's city centre. About 1,000 pigs and 150 cattle are slaughtered on this site every day - according to the will of some city council factions, not for long: They want to close the Bamberg slaughterhouse and use the property for other purposes. The slaughterhouse has been a public limited company since 2020. In January 2023, the city council will decide on the future...
The Bamberg traffic police pursued a vehicle from the American manufacturer Tesla for a quarter of an hour on Wednesday, which was apparently traveling independently on the A70. According to the police, the 45-year-old driver fell asleep behind the wheel, and the built-in autopilot then steered the car at a constant speed of 110 on the highway.When the police wanted to stop and check the man, his Tesla just kept driving. "He didn't respond to stop signals or repeated horns...
Even if the number of people leaving is high and many pews remain empty on normal Sundays - for many people Christmas is still the festival where going to church is simply a part of it. Corona has receded into the background, the obligation to wear masks, the requirement to maintain distance and the 3-G regulation have long since been abolished. But it should be cooler than in previous years in the festively decorated churches: energy must also be saved...
Rüdiger Linhof and friends bring a used ambulance from Bamberg to the Ukraine. A travelogue about treacherous geodata and the will to never give up. source site
