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“Rapist chats” with tens of thousands of participants were discovered on Telegram
A group of investigative journalists from the STRG_F project of the German television company ARD discovered special chats in the Telegram messenger where people gather, sharing their experience of organizing sexualized violence. More than 70,000 people from different countries participated in these chats, the British The Telegraph reported .
Participants in these telegram chats most often shared advice on how to put to sleep and then rape sleeping women, the investigation showed.
Some users said they had previously attacked women in this manner, including their own family members, including wives, partners, sisters and mothers. These users shared instructions with their interlocutors on how best to organize such an attack, STRG_F said.
Chat participants posted links to online stores where you can buy sedatives disguised as hair products. Some users shared photos and some shared videos of the attacks. In one case, a man in Germany said he would put his wife to sleep and suggested it to other users.
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Conversations in “rapist chats” were conducted primarily in English, investigators noted. During the course of the investigation, which lasted about a year, the STRG_F team noticed that some of these telegram chats were deactivated, but former participants sent each other links to new chats.
Investigators said they had “some success” in persuading Telegram employees to share information with them about investigations into groups linked to terrorism and sexualized child abuse.
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The Telegram company said that it was taking action against groups like “rapist chats,” The Telegraph writes. The company said it has a “zero-tolerance policy for abuse” and assured that “any users found to be engaging in such behavior will be blocked immediately.”
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