nigerian investigative journalists and 2021 d w freedom of speech award winner to boree of henri congratulations again much success moving forward and thank you for sharing your story and thanks for staying up with us tonight thank you. l.l. thanks for the recognition. police here in germany say they have shut down one of the world's biggest child sex abuse online platforms the platform was known as boys town and had more than 400000 members police say the online network was part of the darkness and had been operating since at least 2019 an international operation coordinated by europol over several months led to a series of raids in mid april for men in germany one man in paraguayan have been arrested are for more now we want to bring in our political correspondent julia saw daily she has been following this story for us to use this this is difficult to get our heads around there were almost half a 1000000 people involved is that right. yes it is an astounding number and investigators think that this is one of the biggest online platform where people were sharing sexual abuse on on children and

nigerian investigative journalists and 2021 d w freedom of speech award winner to boree of henri congratulations again much success moving forward and thank you for sharing your story and thanks for staying up with us tonight thank you l.l. come on thanks for the recognition we're here in germany police have shut down a major internet platform that shared images of the sexual abuse of children officials say the darknet site was one of the biggest in the world and had been operating since at least 2019 investigation found images of several more severe rather sexual abuse including of toddlers several suspects are now in custody. the boy's town website is now offline but until recently more than 400000 members met up on this darkness platform to share illegal images of young boys being abused after a lengthy investigation by germany and europe all 3 main suspects were arrested mid april and a 4th is now in custody authorities shut the platform down. all 4 men were arrested on suspicion of criminal activity they're being charged with conspiracy and publishing pornographic content 3 of them are accu

freedom of speech award winner to boree of henri congratulations again much success moving forward and thank you for sharing your story and thanks for staying up with us tonight thank you. l.l. thanks for the recognition. police here in germany say they have shut down one of the world's biggest child sex abuse online platforms the platform was known as boys town and had more than 400000 members police say the online network was part of the darkness and had been operating since at least 2019 an international operation coordinated by europol over several months led to a series of raids in mid april for men in germany one man in paraguay have been arrested are for more now we want to bring in our political correspondent julia saw daily she has been following this story for us good evening to you this this is difficult to get our heads around there were almost half a 1000000 people involved is that right. yes it is an astounding number and investigators think that this is one of the biggest online platform where people were sharing sexual abuse on on children and to put this into context i

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