German man arrested for allegedly driving U.S. teen to die by suicide

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German police, acting connected an FBI tip-off, arrested an alleged online sadist accused of driving a 14-year-old U.S. miss to bent herself, prosecutors said Friday.

The 18-year-old German was arrested successful Hamburg connected Thursday, accused of being the indirect perpetrator of execution and grievous bodily harm.

FBI Indianapolis Special Agent successful Charge Timothy J. O'Malley said successful a connection that their bureau worked with the Fort Wayne Police Department to supply accusation to the German constabulary to assistance beforehand the arrest. The Fort Wayne Police Department said successful a connection that its Homicide Unit identified a fishy who contributed to the juvenile's death.

"Anyone who targets oregon exploits a kid should recognize this: There is nary harmless haven from justice. It doesn't substance wherever you unrecorded oregon wherever you effort to hide. The FBI volition enactment with our partners astir the satellite to find you and clasp you accountable," O'Malley said.

The fishy was linked to an online radical called "Nefarious Maniac Kult" oregon "NMK," portion of a planetary web known by the labels "764" oregon "COM," the Hamburg nationalist prosecutor's bureau said.

From September 2024 to September 2025, the FBI has seen a 300% summation successful nihilistic convulsive extremism cases — galore involving the 764 group, said FBI Director Kash Patel. The radical 764 lacks a circumstantial ideology, but members openly promote self-harm and unit and promote victims to nutrient videos documenting acts of self-harm oregon kid intersexual maltreatment material.

Between September and October, the suspect, past aged 17, allegedly "exerted influence" via the societal web Discord implicit the miss from Indiana authorities whom prosecutors described arsenic "psychologically fragile".

The fishy allegedly pressured the miss to chopped herself and constitute the letters "NMK" connected a partition successful her ain blood, and had her nonstop him video recordings of these acts. A fewer days later, she hanged herself successful her bedroom, prosecutors said.

The fishy allegedly sought a video signaling of her death, hoping to summation presumption wrong the radical oregon to unafraid introduction into it.

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