According to the investigation of severe sexual abuse of children by the police in several German States took on Friday of suspects, including in the state of Brandenburg. According to the police, Münster, in charge of the investigation, were objects in lower Saxony and Hesse searches. About the backgrounds and contexts of public Prosecutor and police of Münster, want to inform on Saturday at a press conference. Further Details have not wanted to call a police spokeswoman said because of the ongoing investigation on Friday, for lunch. Starting point are from Westphalia and investigative proceedings against suspects in North Rhine-Westphalia.

The police Department in Frankfurt (Oder) had confirmed in the Morning by a search in Brandenburg, Finowfurt in a residential building and a small garden. With the use of it went to child pornography, said a spokeswoman for the police. The action had been planned by officials from North Rhine-Westphalia and carried out. The Brandenburg colleagues had only done support. A man was detained according to information from the police.

North Rhine-Westphalia since the beginning of 2019, with a number of cases, with a heavy sexual abuse of children in the media headlines. First, the case of Lügde was to become known. On a campsite in the district of Lippe children had been hundreds of times by several men over the years, severely sexually abused. The district court of Detmold sent the offender in the autumn of 2019 to prison.

investigations of a nationwide child-porn exchange ring had begun in October, 2019 in Bergisch Gladbach, near Cologne, and has now expanded to all provinces. In NRW alone, is determined against more than 20 Suspects. At the end of April had begun, a first process in Mönchengladbach against two 39-year-old men.

North Rhine-Westphalia Minister of the interior, Herbert Reul (CDU), had declared after the fall of Lügde, the topic of child abuse to the chief thing. He equipped the authorities in the country, more personnel and professional technical equipment for evaluation of photos and Videos with child pornographic Material. The number of criminal charges related to child pornography increased until January 2019 to 63 percent compared to the prior-year period, in the case of child abuse by 18 percent.