The German authorities worked with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to reveal the crimes of the network, the police said. The suspect, who has a double German-Iranian nationality, is accused of having committed more than 120 crimes when he was between 16 and 19 years old, according to the prosecutors.

The man was arrested on Tuesday in his parents’ apartment in Hamburg and would have denied the accusations against a judge. He would have acted under the pseudonym White Tiger and have been part of an international pedophile criminal group called ‘764’. According to US prosecutors, the 15-year-old founder of the network has been sentenced to 80 years in prison.

Forums

It concerns, among other things, actions that have damaged the life, physical integrity and the sexual self -determination of a total of eight minors, the prosecutors said. According to German prosecutors, the 20-year-old focused specifically on children who were struggling, including on internet forums on suicide. He would have slowly won their confidence before he made his victims emotionally dependent on him to make themselves hurt themselves, to the point of suicide.

The eight children who were the target of the German husband and who were identified by the authorities were between 11 and 15 years old at the time of the crimes and come from Germany, England, Canada and the US.

Cruel

According to the Hamburg police chief Falk Schnabel, the crimes showed an unimaginable degree of cruelty and inhumanity. “The actions are beyond the imagination of man,” says Attorney General Jörg Fröhlich. He said that agents had seized countless videos of beheadings, torture and rapes of small children.

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