On Thursday, the public prosecutor's offices in Hechingen, Stuttgart and Tübingen as well as the Reutlingen police headquarters launched a large-scale operation against suspected owners of child pornographic material. The investigators from the Esslingen Criminal Investigation Department searched a total of 29 apartments with the support of colleagues from the police.
The operation was preceded by tips from US security authorities and extensive investigations, including on the Internet, which resulted in the identification of three dozen suspects, including three women. They are accused of possessing and distributing child pornography content.
The public prosecutor's office then obtained judicial search warrants for people between the ages of 16 and 62 living in all four districts of the Reutlingen police headquarters. According to the results of the investigation so far, there is no connection between the suspects and therefore also between the individual cases.
During the coordinated enforcement of the decisions, more than 70 officials secured extensive evidence on Thursday. These mainly include smartphones, tablets, notebooks and other data carriers that are now being evaluated.
The criminal police investigations, in particular into possible additional suspects or ways of disseminating the prohibited content, are ongoing and will take some time.
Source: Reutlingen Police Headquarters
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