First Published: 9:31 AM PDT, May 4, 2021
The Boystown platform was said to have had more than 400,000 registered members before it was shut down in mid-April, prosecutors said. “Images of the most severe sexual abuse of toddlers” were found among the videos and photographs.
German authorities broke up an international child pornography ring described as “one of the world’s biggest child pornography darknet platforms, said to have had more than 400,000 registered members before it was shut down last month, prosecutors said, CBS News reported.
The three main suspects: a 40-year-old male from Paderborn, a 49-year-old man from Munich and a 58-year-old male from northern Germany, who had been living in Paraguay for many years, were arrested in mid-April. All three men were all administrators of the “Boystown” platform, said Frankfurt prosecutors and the Federal Criminal Police Office in a statement, Global News reported.
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WASHINGTON – In a potentially significant shift in the debate over combating sexual assault in the military, the nation s top general says he is dropping his opposition to a proposal to take decisions on sexual assault prosecution out of the hands of commanders.
Gen. Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, stopped short of endorsing the changes recommended by an independent review panel. But in an interview with The Associated Press and CNN, Milley said he is now open to considering them because the problem of sexual assault in the military has persisted despite other efforts to solve it. “We ve been at it for years, and we haven t effectively
Germany busts darknet child porn site with help from RCMP
TORONTO, Ontario (CTV Network) German authorities say they have busted one of the world’s largest international platforms for child pornography via a complex investigation that took them to the darknet and was aided by Canada’s RCMP.
Frankfurt prosecutors and the Federal Criminal Police Office released a statement saying that three suspects believed to be administrators of the “Boystown” platform had been arrested in mid-April, one of them in Paraguay. A German user was also arrested.
The RCMP said that no Canadians have been arrested during the investigation.
“The [National Child Exploitation Crime Centre] collaborated with German authorities during their investigation. To date, there have been no Canadian arrests associated with this operation. As the investigation is ongoing, the RCMP is not able to comment further,” an RCMP spokesperson told CTVNews.ca.
2021-05-04 17:35:44 GMT2021-05-05 01:35:44(Beijing Time) Xinhua English
BERLIN, May 4 (Xinhua) Politically motivated crimes in Germany reached a new record level last year with more than 44,000 cases, an increase of 8.5 percent and the highest number since the start of data collection in 2001, Minister of the Interior Horst Seehofer announced on Tuesday.
Violent crimes that were politically motivated even increased by 18.8 percent to a total of 3,365 cases in 2020. At the same time, eleven people became victims of political homicide and there were 13 attempted homicides with a political background.
Referring to the murder of a homosexual couple in Dresden in October last year, a homicide in Cottbus in March and the racially motivated terrorist attack in Hanau in February, Seehofer said at a press conference that there were clear tendencies towards brutalization.
Hate crimes against LGBT+ people in Germany rise 36% in 2020 Reuters 5/4/2021
By Enrique Anarte
BERLIN, May 4 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Hate crimes against LGBT+ people increased by 36% in Germany in 2020, highlighting an increase in homophobic attacks and politically motivated violence in the country in recent years, the government and campaigners said on Tuesday.
A total of 782 crimes targeting lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people were reported last year, about 150 of which involved violence, police data showed. Hate crimes against queer people have been on the rise in the past three or four years, said Markus Ulrich, a spokesman for Germany s biggest LGBT+ group LSVD.