Who is 'der Wald-Rambo' and why did he flee into the forest?

7/16/2020, 9:23:58 AM

Helicopters, special units and police dogs: the German police have been searching for 'der Wald-Rambo' for days. What do we know about the man who's probably been hiding in the Black Forest for days?

Helicopters, special units and police dogs: the German police have been searching for 'der Wald-Rambo' for days. What do we know about the man who's probably been hiding in the Black Forest for days?

The German police receive a call on Sunday morning from a suspicious local resident. A man with a bow and arrow has been spotted at a shed on the edge of the forest.

Four police officers go to report and find Yves Rausch, an apparently calm man dressed in army clothes. The police ask him to leave the shed, after which he refuses and unexpectedly pulls a gun.

Rausch manages to disarm the agents and quickly flees into the Black Forest. This is a densely wooded area in the southwest of Germany, located on the French border. It is a rough area, which makes the search for the man more difficult. According to Bild,the police are also searching the many caves and bunkers in the area.

To this day, there is no sign of Rausch. "It's likely to be a long search," police chief Reinhard Renter said at a news conference on Tuesday, Merkur said . "The forest is his living room."

Rausch has had no permanent residence or residence since last year. He lives in different places in the forest, which is more than 8.6 square kilometers in size.

Yves Rausch after a previous arrest. (Photo: Polizei Baden Württemberg )

Family and local residents call Rausch harmless

In his hometown Oppenau, which has only five thousand inhabitants, Rausch is described by the majority as a harmless loner according to German media.

"He always walked around with a white rat on his shoulder," a man from the city told Focus on Wednesday

His mother also says that her son is harmless. "Yves is not a violent person and would not hurt anyone. He is polite and friendly. Maybe a little bit different, but he is helpful, creative, sensitive and loves nature," she told Mittbadische Presse.

His aunt, who is afraid that he will not come out of the forest alive, agrees. "They make him a monster he's not," she told RTL .

Immaculate, however, Rausch's past is anything but. He was previously suspected of having a knife and a gun, among other things. In 2010, he was sentenced to 3.5 years in prison for shooting his then girlfriend with a crossbow. Last year he rented a house of which he converted the attic into a shooting range.

Police do not expect political motives

Little is known about Rausch's motives for his flight from the police. In a possible manifesto entitled The Call of the Wilderness , which was left by the man in the shed, he states that "civilized man is opposed to the wild man." He complains that technology enslaved man

Bild had the manifest analyzed by an expert. He argues that the manifesto is not very problematic in content and that - unlike comparable manifestos - it contains no threats or a call to violence.

According to the police, Rausch has no political motives and no other people are involved in his disappearance. Meanwhile, the search continues unabated. "We have stamina," German police said at a news conference on Thursday, Badische Zeitungreports .

https://www.tellerreport.com/news/2020-07-16-who-isder-wald-ramboand-why-did-he-flee-into-the-forest-.ByeIeH0pJw.html

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https://mobile.twitter.com/RealPrestonBruc/status/1283937463115841536

Germany investigates 30,000 suspects over paedophile network

29 June 2020

I’m pretty sure this has posted before but this twitter person connects the “Rambo” hunt to the hunt for 30,000 pedos. I’m checking out the BBC links on pedos

German officials are investigating 30,000 suspects in connection with an online paedophile network.

The inquiry began last year when a 43-year-old man was arrested near Cologne for allegedly raping his daughter and sharing video of the abuse.

That initial arrest led police to uncover a sprawling network of suspects - just over 70 of whom have since been identified - in Germany.

Local officials have called the discovery "deeply disturbing".

Inquiries initially centred on the Cologne suburb of Bergisch Gladbach, where families were reportedly caught swapping pictures of their own children being abused.

The 43-year-old suspect is due to go on trial in August, and others have been arrested.

In May a 27-year-old soldier linked to the network was sentenced to 10 years in prison and placed in a psychiatric hospital for an indefinite period of time.

Germany urges paedophiles out of the shadows

Couple sold son to paedophiles on dark net

How a BBC reader snared a paedophile

State Justice Minister Peter Beisenbach told reporters he had not "even remotely" suspected the extent of child abuse circulating online.

"We want to drag perpetrators and supporters of child abuse out of the anonymity of the internet," he added.

Germany, and specifically North Rhine-Westphalia, has been rocked by several recent child abuse scandals:

Earlier this month 11 people were arrested for alleged sexual abuse of children after photographs and videos were found in a cellar in Muenster. At the time investigators said they had identified three victims aged five, 10 and 12

In an earlier scandal, it was discovered that several men had abused children several hundred times at a campsite in Luegde between 1998 and 2018. Most of the victims were between the ages of three and 14 at the time

https://mobile.twitter.com/Mareq16/status/1279720052254748672

https://www.bbc.com/news/amp/world-europe-53224444?__twitter_impression=true

Germany urges paedophiles out of the shadows

July 13, 2020

BBC tries to make some pedos “virtuos” because they only look at child porn, etc. But never act on the compulsions! Horseshit and reprogramming acceptance of pedos as good people

Some men who are sexually attracted to children would like help to change their condition but fear doctors will tell the police. In Germany, though, a campaign is under way to persuade them to sign up for confidential treatment, even if they have abused a child - and doctors are hailing it as a big success.

Max is a science graduate, in his early thirties. Articulate, with a ready smile and an infectious laugh. He could be your neighbour, your work colleague or your sister's new boyfriend. A nice guy. An average bloke. Except he's also a paedophile.

Max is sexually attracted to pre-pubescent girls — typically between the ages of six and 11. It's an urge that for years filled him with self-loathing and despair.

"I would see a girl, and I would undress the girl in my mind, and it was just disgusting, and I'd say to myself: 'Stop this.' And it just wouldn't stop. I had feelings of disgust and fear," he says.

Max has never abused a child sexually, nor does he consume child pornography — itself a form of indirect abuse, because children are usually involved in its production. In fact Max is just one of many people who feel an attraction to children, but who are determined not to act on it.

They are sometimes called celibate or "virtuous" paedophiles. The word "paedophilia" describes the sexual attraction, not the abuse itself, so not all paedophiles are child abusers - and not all child abusers are paedophiles, experts say, since abuse sometimes has other root causes.

Celibate paedophiles are a hidden segment of the population. They have never committed an offence, so are unknown to the police. And because of the taboo - and the fear of violence from people who think they are child abusers - they usually keep their attraction secret.

It's a much bigger group than you might think. Recent research suggests that between 3% and 5% of men, from all social and economic backgrounds, could be sexually attracted to children. Some are attracted only to girls. Others only to boys. Others to both. And some are also attracted to adults.

"I don't have greasy hair, pebble glasses and wear tatty clothes," writes Max in a book he has published to help other paedophiles who don't want to abuse children. "There is no such thing as the typical paedophile which people imagine. We are all different, and completely normal people. The only thing we all have in common is a sexual attraction to children… I am learning to control the sexual side of my feelings."

He's doing that partly thanks to a radical treatment for paedophiles called the Dunkelfeld Prevention Project, which is in operation at 11 different centres across Germany.

https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-33464970

German couple jailed for selling son to paedophiles on dark net

From 2018

Once again Germans allow this shit, child services didn’t report the abuse so it hadn’t been investigated

The couple's sexual exploitation case shocked Germany (faces blurred for legal reasons)

A woman who sold her son to paedophiles on the dark net has been jailed for 12 years and six months by a court in southern Germany.

The Freiburg court also jailed her partner, the boy's stepfather, for 12 years. The boy was nine when the trial began in June.

The German nationals, 48 and 39 years old, had sexually abused the boy themselves for at least two years.

The dark net is an internet area beyond the reach of mainstream search engines.

On Monday, the court jailed a Spanish man for 10 years for sexually abusing the boy repeatedly.

Five other men have also been prosecuted in connection with the abuse.

The couple were found guilty of rape, aggravated sexual assault of children, forced prostitution and distribution of child pornography.

The boy is now living with foster parents.

The couple must now pay €42,500 (£38,000; $49,200) in damages to the boy and to a three-year-old girl, who was also abused by them

What happened to the boy, who is now aged 10, shocked even experienced investigators, reports the BBC's Jenny Hill in Berlin.

Prosecutors say the boy was subjected to more than 60 serious sex attacks, many of which were filmed.

The case has horrified Germany, not least because the authorities - who knew that the mother's partner was a convicted paedophile - missed opportunities to rescue the boy, our correspondent says.

On Tuesday the judge told the boy's mother that she had carried out one of the most brutal sexual attacks.

The trial has also raised concerns that officials might sometimes wrongly presume that a woman is incapable of abusing her own child.

Authorities criticised

German media report that child welfare authorities in Baden-Württemberg state have been heavily criticised for failing to stop the couple's abuse.

The boy had been removed from the couple temporarily by social workers, but was then handed back to them.

Spiegel news website reports that welfare officers had not exchanged information about the case that could have led them to the couple's crimes.

According to case psychiatrist Hartmut Pleines, quoted by Spiegel, the mother's claim that she was in thrall to her partner when she committed the abuse was false.

She did not explain her actions, but her partner did speak a lot in court during the two-month trial, Spiegel reported.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-45096183

'Amazing job': How a BBC reader snared a paedophile15 January 2018. Part 1 of 2

__This guy has to be an anon, good job he did_

••A BBC Trending report about predators on YouTube prompted a reader to investigate - which led to an international tip-off that resulted in the jailing of a dangerous paedophile.

••"I read your article lying in bed like most nights, waiting for sleep to find me, with my wife already asleep beside me," he wrote.

••But he was kept awake by a story about predators on YouTube.

••It appeared on the BBC Trending blog in August 2017, one of a series of reports last year that catalogued flaws in the internet video giant's child protection measures.

••Jack, a father who lives in Australia, was particularly concerned about one aspect of the report - that people were leaving predatory and grooming comments on videos made by young teenagers and children. And in many cases, they were getting away with it. Disturbing comments were left up for weeks or months, and the people behind the accounts were escaping detection or punishment except, in some cases, an account ban. For Jack - who has asked the BBC not to publish his real name because of concerns about his online safety - it was the start of a quest.

••He began to scour YouTube to try to find obscene comments aimed at children. And to his surprise, they weren't hard to find.

"Lo and behold there were hundreds, probably thousands or tens of thousands of these videos riddled with comments," he wrote in a message to BBC Trending

••"I singled one of these [people] out, looked him up, found his Facebook profile, notified a contact." And that was the start of a chain reaction.

The investigation: Scott Parks is a detective sergeant with the sheriff's office in Washington County, Ohio. It's a mostly rural place in the south-eastern corner of the state, tucked up next to West Virginia. There's a lot of farmland and a few factories. Industry here, as in many parts of Ohio and the Midwestern US, has suffered over the past few decades.

••"It's small-town America," Det Sgt Parks says.

••Det Sgt Parks is a specialist with a decade of experience in child sexual abuse cases and online crime. He says he and his team tend to get, on average, a couple of such cases a week.

••His involvement in this particular case started with a stroke of luck. The suspect identified by Jack was named Kenneth Siders, and Siders happened to have a police officer on his Facebook friends list.

••It was that law enforcement officer that Jack contacted out of the blue from Australia, to pass on his concerns about Siders' online activity.

••The officer worked in the next county over from where Siders lived, and after getting the initial tip, he passed it to the Washington County authorities. From there, it ended up on Scott Parks' desk.

https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-trending-42559977