Friedrich, a member of the Christian Democrats' Bavarian sister party, the CSU, decides to tell Sigmar Gabriel, head of the Social Democrats (SPD), that Edathy was the object of international criminal investigations.
Edathy is being seen as a possible choice for a senior position in the interior ministry. Meanwhile, the Christian Democrats and the Social Democrats are involved in tough coalition negotiations. According to public broadcaster NDR, the 16 state criminal police agencies were also informed about the suspicions against Edathy. The BKA informs the Federal Ministry of the Interior: Deputy minister Klaus-Dieter Fritsche informs his boss, the then-Interior Minister Hans-Peter Friedrich, that the international investigation has turned up Edathy's name. The case is handed to the prosecutor in Frankfurt. The BKA carries out investigations into the child pornography ring. Among them is the 42-year-old Social Democrat member of the Bundestag, Sebastian Edathy. The Canadian investigators tell the German Federal Criminal Police Agency (BKA) that some 800 Germans are believed to be Azov customers. The case started in 2010 when Canadian police began to investigate a global provider of child pornography: Azov Films, based in Toronto, is said to have customers in 94 countries, including Germany.
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