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他们自称为“专家德国驾校”，但检察官表示，这些Telegram聊天群组的真实目的是炫耀自己强奸女性的行径，并分享给女性下药的攻略。
根据法庭文件，在他们有时会附上袭击失去意识受害者的照片和视频的帖子中，他们将女性称为“汽车”，将镇静剂称为“燃料”，将强奸称为“驾驶”。他们还将受害者称作“死猪”。
调查人员梳理了这款热门即时通讯应用上约24个群组聊天记录，这些记录跨度达数年之久。当局认为，这些群组是一个由主要为华裔男性组成的在线 predator 网络，他们的目标主要是在德国的华裔女性。此次调查已促使三名据称属于核心圈子的成员因强奸等罪名被定罪，第四名男子目前正在柏林接受审判。
“这些罪犯的特点是特别冷酷无情，将受害者物化，并且处心积虑地策划犯罪，”法兰克福首席检察官多米尼克·米斯告诉美联社。
调查的主要细节目前仍不为人知，至少公众无从知晓，包括有多少起袭击和作案者与德国Telegram群组有关，以及这些据称部分成员多达数万人的群组为何能够存在如此之久。目前也不清楚这些群组是否与欧美正在扩大的、针对厌女派在线社群实施的药物辅助性侵犯调查有关。
华人社区发起声援受害者活动
根据德国隐私法，检察官在法庭之外所能透露的信息有限，相关文件也受到限制，在柏林正在进行的庭审中，公众甚至在部分庭审环节被要求离开法庭。
这或许是为何针对Telegram群组的调查在德国没有获得预期关注的原因。但该国的华人社区成员，其中大多为女性，一直在出席庭审，以表达对受害者的支持，即便她们并不认识这些受害者。
“最让人愤怒的是看到这类群体仇视女性，毫无尊重可言，”上周专程跋涉约500公里（310英里）前往柏林旁听庭审的傅晓说道。“女性根本不被当人看。”
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在中国，官方媒体已对这几起案件进行了全面报道，但在小红书等华语社交媒体上，针对这些起诉的广泛讨论已遭到部分审查。截图和搜索结果显示，使用某些标签的帖子更有可能被删除或封禁。但使用更委婉措辞的帖子得以通过审查，例如提及“约会强奸”或使用“在德国留学的学生”这类隐晦说法。
中国公安部和小红书未回应置评请求。
案件呼应标志性法国庭审
德国的这几起案件被拿来与吉赛尔·佩利科遭遇的袭击相提并论。这位法国女性在近十年时间里不断被前夫及其邀请到家中的陌生人下药并强奸。此次庭审——以及佩利科放弃匿名身份的决定——推动了法国乃至全球范围内对强奸文化的反思。
“佩利科案并非孤例，”慕尼黑法庭在审理此次德国调查中被定罪的一名华裔男子时，法官马库斯·科普恩莱特纳在听证会上表示。“这既不是中国现象，也不是法国现象，而是在德国同样存在，最终在全球范围内都存在的问题。”
与“德国驾校”调查类似的案件正在全球各地不断出现。尽管当局尚未公开将这些案件与德国的起诉联系起来，但一些调查人员表示，德国当局和记者提供的线索对案件推进至关重要。
在洛杉矶，德国调查人员去年就一起疑似药物辅助性侵犯案件联系了警方。被告是一名来自中国的研究生，据称他从德国一名中国国民处获取药物后，在洛杉矶对三名女性实施了下药和性侵。
上个月在荷兰，警方在接到德国和英国当局的线索后逮捕了四名涉嫌下药并性侵女性的男子。荷兰警方表示，这些据称的作案者利用社交媒体聊天群组传播虐待视频，并讨论如何给受害者下药。
欧盟警察机构欧洲刑警组织上周宣布了“美杜莎计划”，这是一项旨在摧毁推广药物辅助性侵犯的在线网络的国际行动。由德国和英国执法部门牵头的这项行动已抓获57人。
案件引发对Telegram的质疑
尽管明显违反了Telegram的服务条款，这个德国犯罪网络仍得以蓬勃发展，这再次引发了人们对该平台被用于犯罪活动的质疑。
2024年，该应用的创始人在巴黎被捕，罪名是该平台被用于包括贩毒和传播儿童性虐待图像在内的非法活动。他否认有不当行为，并称Telegram用户数量激增“带来的成长烦恼让犯罪分子更容易滥用我们的平台”。目前调查仍在进行中。
“Telegram的服务条款明确禁止性暴力行为，此类内容会被定期删除，”该公司在一份声明中表示。“Telegram履行了与这类有害内容相关的所有法律义务，包括欧盟《数字服务法案》规定的所有内容。”
该公司未回应有关德国案件的提问，包括为何性犯罪的照片、视频和评论能在应用上发布数年、Telegram是否知晓此类活动，以及如果知晓，是否曾采取措施通知当局。
法庭文件显示，部分德国Telegram群组的历史至少可追溯至2020年。曾在之前一起柏林定罪案件中代表一名受害者的律师玛格达莱娜·格布哈德表示，核心圈子有八名作案者，但部分聊天群组的成员多达5万人。
检察官表示，德国警方直到2024年才发现这个网络，当时法兰克福一名被德国法院称为“Z大鹏”的男子改变了作案手法，从对女性熟人下药性侵转向 targeting 在线结识的陌生人。
根据法兰克福中国领事馆和官方媒体《新京报》的报道，德国和中国媒体均称“Z大鹏”是该团伙的头目，德国警方于2024年与中国执法部门合作将其逮捕。
他于2月因加重强奸、未遂谋杀及其他罪名被判处14年监禁，不过他已提起上诉。他的律师未回应置评请求。
尽管当局未公开透露“驾校”网络的受害女性人数，但他们表示调查仍在进行中，这意味着可能会有更多逮捕行动和更多受害者浮出水面。例如，格布哈德的当事人直到调查人员发现视频 footage 后才得知自己曾遭受性侵。
另一项判决即将公布
周三，被告S志庭（音译）将在柏林迎来判决和可能的量刑。据德国和中国官方媒体报道，他被认为是该团伙核心圈子的成员。他被控性侵及其他罪名。
检察官表示，他利用此前接受的医学培训，在Telegram群组中发布指导信息，介绍哪些药物可用于在性侵前使女性镇静。他们称，至少有一人在袭击前遵循了他的建议。
德国当局还指控S志庭多次在中国性侵一名女性，并在网上分享袭击照片。
辩护律师埃桑·哈扎伊利表示，他的当事人承认加入过一个聊天群组，但未提供任何重要建议。他称多项指控已被撤销，包括持有儿童虐待材料和作为身体伤害共犯。
Telegram chats used by men to share rape videos and drugging tips, German prosecutors say
2026-07-08 06:21:35 EDT / CBS News
They called themselves the “German driving school for experts,” but prosecutors say the true purpose of their Telegram chats was to brag about the women they raped and share tips about how to drug them.
In posts that sometimes included photos and videos of their attacks on unconscious victims, they referred to women as “cars,” sedatives as “fuel” and rape as “driving,” according to court documents. They called their victims “dead pigs.”
Investigators have been poring through several years’ worth of posts in roughly two dozen group chats on the popular messaging app that authorities believe served an online predator network of mainly Chinese men targeting mostly Chinese women in Germany. Their investigation has led to the convictions of three alleged inner circle members on rape and other charges, and the ongoing trial of a fourth man in Berlin.
“The perpetrators were characterized by a particular ruthlessness, an objectification of the victims, and the perfidious planning of their crimes,” Frankfurt chief prosecutor Dominik Mies told The Associated Press.
Major details of the investigation remain unknown, at least to the public, including how many attacks and perpetrators have been linked to the German Telegram chats and how the chats, some of which reportedly had tens of thousands of members, could have operated for so long. It’s also unclear if the chats are linked to a ballooning investigation in Europe and the Americas into drug-facilitated sexual assaults by misogynist online communities.
Chinese community rallies to support the victims
Under German privacy laws, prosecutors are limited in what they can say outside the courtroom, documents are restricted and, in the ongoing case in Berlin, members of the public have been forced to leave the courtroom during parts of the trial.
This may be why the investigation into the Telegram group has garnered less attention in Germany than might be expected. But members of the country’s Chinese community, mostly women, have been attending court proceedings to show support for the victims even if they don’t know them.
“What makes one really angry is to see that such groups hate women, they have no respect,” said Fu Xiao, who traveled roughly 500 kilometers (310 miles) to Berlin last week to attend the trial. “Women aren’t seen as people.”
The defendant covers his face as he arrives for a trial against a network of mostly Chinese men, organized in chat groups to advise one another on how to drug and rape mostly Chinese women, in Munich, Germany, Feb. 2, 2026. Malin Wunderlich/dpa via AP
In China, state media has covered the cases comprehensively, but wider discussion about the prosecutions on Chinese-language social media like Rednote has been partially censored. Certain tags have been more likely to get a post deleted or banned on Rednote, screenshots and searches show. But posts using less direct language have survived the censors, including ones that refer to “date rape” or the euphemistic “students studying abroad in Germany.”
China’s Ministry of Public Security and Rednote didn’t respond to requests for comment.
Cases echo a landmark French trial
The German cases have drawn comparisons to the attacks on Gisèle Pelicot, a French woman who, over the course of nearly a decade, was repeatedly drugged and raped by her then-husband and strangers he invited to their home. The trial – and Pelicot’s decision to waive her anonymity – prompted a reckoning over rape culture in France and beyond.
“Pelicot is not an isolated case,” Judge Markus Koppenleitner said during a hearing in Munich for one of the Chinese men convicted in the German investigation. “This is not a Chinese or French phenomenon, but one that also exists in Germany and, ultimately, worldwide.”
Similar cases to the “German driving school” investigation have been popping up around the globe. Although authorities haven’t publicly linked them to the German prosecutions, some investigators have cited tips from German authorities and journalists as crucial to their progress.
In Los Angeles, German investigators last year reached out to police about a potential suspect in drug-facilitated sexual assaults. The defendant, a graduate student from China, is accused of drugging and sexually assaulting three women in LA after he allegedly procured the drugs from a Chinese national in Germany.
In the Netherlands last month, police arrested four men suspected of drugging and sexually abusing women after hearing from authorities in Germany and the U.K. Dutch police said the alleged perpetrators used social media chat groups to disseminate videos showing the abuse and discuss how to drug victims.
And Europol, the European Union’s police agency, last week announced “Project Medusa,” an international operation designed to dismantle online networks that promote drug-facilitated sexual assaults. Law enforcement from Germany and the U.K. are leading the operation, which has already netted 57 arrests.
Cases raise questions about Telegram
The German predator network managed to thrive despite clear violations of Telegram’s terms of service, again raising questions about how the platform has been used for criminal activity.
In 2024, the app’s founder was arrested in Paris over allegations that the platform was being used for illicit activity, including drug trafficking and the distribution of child sexual abuse images. He denied wrongdoing, blaming surging numbers of Telegram users that he said “caused growing pains that made it easier for criminals to abuse our platform.” The investigation is ongoing.
“Sexual violence is explicitly forbidden by Telegram’s terms of service and such content is routinely removed,” the company said in a statement. “Telegram fulfils all of its legal obligations in relation to such harmful content, including everything set out by” the European Union’s Digital Services Act.
The company didn’t respond to questions about the German cases, including how photos, videos and comments about sexual crimes were posted for years in the app, whether Telegram was aware of the activity and what, if anything, it did to alert the authorities.
Some of the German Telegram chats date back to at least 2020, court documents show. Attorney Magdalena Gebhard, who represented a victim in a previous Berlin trial that led to a conviction, said there was an inner circle of eight perpetrators but that some of the chat groups had up to 50,000 members.
Police only became aware of the network in 2024 after a man in Frankfurt, referred to by German courts as Dapeng Z., changed his tactics from drugging and sexually abusing female acquaintances to targeting strangers he met online, according to prosecutors.
German police arrested Dapeng Z., whom German and Chinese media have reported is the group’s ringleader, in 2024 in cooperation with Chinese law enforcement, according to the Chinese consulate in Frankfurt and the Beijing News, a state-run media outlet.
He was sentenced in February to 14 years in prison for aggravated rape, attempted murder and other offenses, though he has appealed. His attorneys didn’t respond to a request for comment.
Although authorities haven’t publicly said how many women were victimized by the “driving school” network, they have said their investigation is ongoing, meaning there could be further arrests and additional victims. Gebhard’s client, for example, only learned she had been sexually assaulted after investigators discovered video footage.
Another verdict is expected
On Wednesday, defendant Zhiting S. is set to receive his verdict and potential sentence in Berlin. He is believed to be part of the group’s inner circle, German and Chinese state media reported. He was charged with sexual assault and other counts.
Prosecutors say he provided instructions, using previous medical training, to a Telegram group about which drugs could be used to sedate women before sexually assaulting them. They say at least one person followed his advice before an attack in Frankfurt.
Zhiting S. was also accused by German authorities of repeatedly sexually abusing a woman in China and sharing images of the assault online.
Defense attorney Ehssan Khazaeli said his client has admitted being part of a chat group but did not offer any significant advice. He said several of the accusations had been dropped, including possession of child abuse material and being an accessory to bodily harm.