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Germany: 12 years in prison for the brain of a pedophile ring

2020-10-06T14:05:49.653Z


A man accused of being the head of a large German pedophile ring and of having himself abused his daughter on several occasions was sentenced Tuesday, October 6 to twelve years in prison by a court in Cologne. To read also: "It's a clap of thunder": in Frontenac was hiding one of the most wanted pedophiles in the world Jörg L., 43, was facing charges of dozens of cases of child sexual abuse, inc


A man accused of being the head of a large German pedophile ring and of having himself abused his daughter on several occasions was sentenced Tuesday, October 6 to twelve years in prison by a court in Cologne.

To read also: "It's a clap of thunder": in Frontenac was hiding one of the most wanted pedophiles in the world

Jörg L., 43, was facing charges of dozens of cases of child sexual abuse, including his own daughter, just a few months old, rape and the dissemination of child pornography.

Most of the crimes concerned his daughter, born in 2017, whom he would have regularly abused in the absence of his mother from the age of three months until 2019 and his arrest.

The German is considered a key figure in what in the country has been called the "

Bergisch Gladbach abuse complex

", named after the city, located in North Rhine-Westphalia (west) where were committed a large part of the crimes.

His arrest had allowed the dismantling of a vast pedophile ring, a case the police are still investigating.

Huge amounts of child pornography

During the searches at his home, the investigators were thus able, thanks to the enormous quantities of child pornography material collected, to find traces of dozens of other pedophiles, some of whom have already been sentenced to prison terms or are still in preventive detention pending their release. trial.

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Mignonnes,

deemed "Islamophobic and pedophile"

The Cologne Public Prosecutor's Office has so far identified 201 suspects involved in this vast criminal network in North Rhine-Westphalia alone.

The "

Bergisch Gladbach abuse complex

" is one of the pedophile networks discovered in recent months by investigators in this region of western Germany.

Another similar case shaking the country concerns cases of child abuse perpetrated for years at a campsite in Lügde, some 200 km north of Bergisch Gladbach.

This case, which concerns some forty children aged between three and fourteen at the material time, is considered one of the biggest scandals of recent decades.

In line with these two cases, the German police said last June that they were investigating 30,000 people suspected of being linked to a vast network of child abuse, most of them for belonging to messaging groups on which exchanged child pornography images.

Source: lefigaro

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