operating a child pornography platform on the darkness and investigators said the men had managed the illegal pornographic content on the elysium network just not to the out of us of the material posted on elysium showed every kind of abuse imaginable of children and teenagers and always played on the victims included newborns and babies the platform was discovered in twenty seventeen and immediately shut down the case made international headlines due to the large number of subscribers investigators found one hundred twelve thousand user accounts paedophiles around the world were offered photos and videos of the worst kind of child abuse on a platform operated from germany prosecutors said the network allowed the exchange of illegal material to be as easy as online shopping investigators will continue to sift through the evidence and work with international authorities to bring additional prosecutions. our political correspondent hans front is following