Overview
- Special police searched his Ostwürttemberg residence and seized multiple storage devices, including a phone and a laptop.
- The Cybercrime-Zentrum Baden-Württemberg is conducting forensic analysis while the suspect remains in pretrial detention.
- Investigators say he commissioned and directed assaults via paid livestreams between 2018 and 2023.
- The inquiry began after Philippine police dismantled a ring that sold live broadcasts of child abuse for money.
- Five children aged 2 to 13 from the Philippine case are in protective custody, and officials have declined to disclose any spending details.