A German court on Monday jailed five men for running a darknet website where hundreds of thousands of users shared images and videos of child sexual abuse.
The men aged between 44 and 63 were sentenced to prison terms ranging from five and a half to 10 and a half years, a spokesman for the court in Moenchengladbach, western Germany, said.
The judges ruled that one of the men must be kept in preventative detention once his sentence ends due to the high probability that he would reoffend.
The platform, known as Alice in Wonderland, was shut down after being targeted in nationwide raids in September 2024.