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A completely normal evening in Pataya or what is considered completely normal here. For almost two years, the capital of sex tourists was in a deep corona sleep. Thailand turned on the red light again and many Germans were waiting for Wolfgang Rill 44. On the way with tick 45 he met her in a bar in Germany if you go to a prostitute like that you pay double triple and they give you half or less but officially There is no prostitution here, yes, there are no prostitutes here. girls call themselves bargs There are 60,000 sex workers in pata, one of them is om.

Four years ago she had a relationship with a German, she became pregnant but he left her, she says that now she earns a living for her family through prostitution, but I would like to leave work. What should I do? There are no more jobs in the town. The Corona lockdown has made everything worse. First I have to earn money to be able to leave here. dark side of the entertainment industry and continuing with the evidence that after the opening of Corona it is not only them who are sex tourists but also German pedocriminals who have returned to Pataya on Pataja beach and her current constant companion, she Presents as Tick, He wouldn't describe himself as a sex tourist, but rather as a Pataj lover.

Rill has made a name for himself on the scene as an author of erotic stories in Thailand and, unlike most German men, he has no problem speaking openly in front of our camera and Tick has also agreed to filming. Drill has been coming to Pataja for decades, why sometimes he wonders what really creates this fascination, so now he could say that the girls here are more feminine, they are friendlier, they are friendlier. They are more attractive, they smile more, they simply have a lot more fun in life than women in Germany, but this is a business relationship and both parties are clear about it.

I think it is not always a purely business relationship. the other side, the emotional one, and that has to be there, otherwise things will not turn out well. We asked Tick how he sees the matter. Is it about business or is it about feelings? He prefers to remain silent, yes, about money. Money is very important, yes, okay. He hardly speaks English, yes, he was about to say that communication is of course very limited, no, because of the eye level relationship and of course it is difficult. Yes, he speaks pretty poor English. , but we are working on it and she is also studying a lot.

Teach him and yes, it is surprising how little vocabulary or how little is spoken in a relationship like this. In fact, we are a help to living Isan women. However, in northern Thailand, on the other hand, we are the ones who keep the system going, who keep prostitution alive, that is, prostitution as an aid to development, morality and poverty. That doesn't cause him problems, says Rill, an old man with a young woman bought love, he bought sex. He thinks everything is fine as long as both parties benefit and he has one more request for us to have mercy on men.

Also in Germany there is a lot of talk about the bad sides of prostitution, yes, and it is always bad for women, but what is bad for an older man is a man who is alone, who is alone, who has no one, who does not I don't have sex anymore, and that's in a world obsessed and focused on sex, so there's actually less talk about how bad an existence like that is, so have mercy on men too. Do we also have mercy on women because I mean? The work they do is very hard, no, it's not just laughing and everything is fine, so what I see here in Thailand is not as difficult as they say now and they also have a lot of fun, they laugh a lot and company.

They do something, they go on a trip, they sit on the motorcycle and drive or they meet up with friends and girlfriends. Where is the catastrophe now? So I can't necessarily see it like that here because oM has worked six times. For 10 years she almost managed to get out. Four years ago, a client brought her to Germany and promised her a future together. When Om became pregnant, he sent her back to Thailand and promised her that she would soon have offspring. On the plane, she had her phone number and email address disconnected. She says I returned to Thailand when I was five months pregnant and suddenly she disappeared.

I don't know why, but she completely evaded responsibility. How terrible have you felt since then? I hate men from Germany I don't know they're all like that but if one doesn't and we start talking about where you're from Germany then I say goodbye not that I have anything against any of them but I've learned my lesson and I'm actually just I have one request do not judge us for our work we are not stealing from anyone we are just doing our job true it is illegal but that is no reason to treat us disrespectfully om works in several bars where he tries to find clients the illegality of sex work creates many problems most of women do not have health insurance and during the covid lockdown, sex workers were excluded from all government aid programs in a country where the red light industry is estimated to generate $27 billion and contribute to the 14% of the gross domestic product.

Figures that are difficult to verify, however, and it is seen that some nights you usually earn a lot of money in this job but it is boring, there are many who demand to do it without a condom and want to sleep with a woman two by two. or three but that is a humiliation for a person. Not all men are like that, it's part of it that girls are there, it's fun, they're relaxed, it's not just about sex, for many it's just about getting attention and being. I have noticed that the girls are like friends, they are just friendly and current.

There are no figures, but now 400,000 Germans fly around the world every year in search of cheap sex and Thailand remains one of the main destinations in Pataja. Even a German neighborhood with nlua with a German-speaking lawyer and a schnitzel house. The Bramburi restaurant is run by Hamburg restaurateur Thomas Seeland. He has been in Thailand for 15 years and now has very good contacts in Thailand, the Crown Prince of Thailand. , he was visiting us, he was visiting you, no, I have been cooking for him regularly for three or four years, he lives in Germany Munich and whenever he comes here with his friends and his employees I am the German chef and I travel. with him, so I was able to take a very nice photo because it's unusual, you can't actually take a photo with him.

It has an effect on us. It's as if Zeeland feels like an ambassador for Pataya. that he has to polish the image of the city. Many people think it is the largest brothel in the world. Three small areas, actually three small ones compared to the city. If I don't go there, I don't experience it, but of course that's already the case. dominant in the city center, no matter where you look, there is the bar where the girls sit and so on, well, but the girls Here or in Asia in general, people just dress short because the temperatures allow it, not necessarily always has anything to do with prostitution, even the school clothes have short skirts because it is simply hot and because there is no air conditioning in the schools, so but now don't tell me that there are no prostitutes in parteia, there are only girlfriends, there are no prostitutes, the difference is also legal.

Prostitutes predict that you will say a price in advance for a certain service. You will very rarely experience this here, but it is paid sex. Not yet or definitely yes, and that's okay too, everyone should live. What they want. The best thing I have seen in the last 15 years since I have been in Thailand is the development that there is nothing more with the children and that is it. That's right, unfortunately that used to be the biggest problem 15 years ago. But that no longer exists. Actually, at first glance we have doubts. The pedestrian street is the main kilometer of Pataja.

Today employees of a private child protection organization work here and try regularly. talk to sex workers and tourists in high season, hello you speak English, we are from the human network and recently we have received reports of crimes against children again, if you observe suspicious activities here and children see dangerous ones at night, please call us at this number Many tourists here have said that there was child prostitution in Pat 15 or 20 years ago. Now everything is under control. That is a very interesting perspective because, in our daily experience, men always manage to break in and commit crimes against us. children Currently the number of cases is increasing and here Walking Street is famous for its nightlife, there are a lot of people outside and that is very dangerous for children, tourists want to know, to be honest, Not really, most of them come here for very specific purposes, but yes.

There is a fine line between prostitution and child prostitution, child protection activists see that so-called normal sex tourism creates structures in red light districts that put children in serious danger. During our filming, this boy came alone along the bar street, his family sent him to sell chewing gum to tourists, now the child protectors accompany him home. Let's imagine that someone drags the child to a dark corner. raise awareness about such dangers many of the successes in the fight against child prostitution seem to be in serious danger in pataja late at night we see children holding hands with tourists no one intervenes or even seems surprised by this we are in Bangkok the way to the police headquarters the deputy chief of police of Thailand has agreed to give his interview after repeated requests he has just arrived from an important appointment with the Minister of the Interior he is putting on his Sunday uniform for our interview de suette hakpan he is cultivating his reputation for take tough measures against criminal structures in the red light district.

We saw on Pat that apparently many underage girls are working in bars again and children's rights activists are reporting that pedocriminals are heading to Thailand again, what are they doing about it? This is very worrying here in Thailand, but also throughout Southeast Asia: abused children are getting younger and the violence inflicted on them is getting worse. Our research work is difficult, especially because the producers of. Child pornography uses new technologies to hide its tracks The police provided us with the special tikak unit in action. They are fighting online abuse, a phenomenon that has increased enormously during the Corona lockdown.

Children are forced to be in front of Internet cameras and abused. The material is sold online to customers around the world. Last year several dozen children were lost. Released from pedocriminal gangs, family members are often accomplices. The police chief has just reported a success in Pataja. Suspected child abuse. It is said that he bought child prostitutes in a bar. These bar areas are high risk areas for children, but I'm talking to him today. The Minister of the Interior decided that we will instruct all police stations. country strictly control all bars and nightclubs, we will not tolerate child prostitution in Pataja, we have just proven it and closed a brewery where underage prostitutes worked, the perpetrators should expect severe punishments and we ask again about the Germans arrested in Pataj Surprisingly , invites us to film a discussion about the case.

Police Chief Patas has just arrived and has given us new details about the case. The closed meeting place for suspected pedophiles is called Kobraar and is located in the middle of the show. Pat district, we keep the receipts at the bar that were on the tables in small wooden containers and each invoice can be assigned to an employee. The women and girls said they should let customers buy them as many drinks as possible and then drink them at home. At the top of each bill there is a pointed Noer, so we know that the employees worked in the bar.

We were able to identify them all. I can show you here. Are they over 18 years old? No, not only one is of age, so almost all of them are adults. children where are they now we are looking for a safe place where we can house them together. The youngest girl we interviewed is named Ann. She is only 12 years old. She told us that she came alone to Pataya with her mother who was divorced from her. The mother works as a garbage collector and the girl was sneaking around to earn money to eat at the bar. Investigators at the time can only tell us this about the detained German.

A man from Frankfurt is said to have taken underage girls from the bar. to his apartment several times He is being investigated for rape and child abuse The man is detained in Pataya The photographs from the police file show that he was apparently a regular guest at The alleged pedophile bar The minors released from the ww The girls are now cared for by workers social and therapeutic. His daily life in Kobra's bar was bleak. The recordings show that the children were apparently forced to get drunk with customers. OM is sure that her son should not grow up in the red light district, Tim, four years old, lives with OM's mother in the countryside, many people do this in Pataya, children grow up with their grandmothers in it. village whileMothers earn money as prostitutes.

Officially this is taboo in conservative Thailand and yet it is a survival model for thousands of poorer families. Hello, hello, I tried. Being close to his son, even from a distance, the daily phone call is a nice ritual for both of them, he is still a good boy, says om mom will be home soon goodbye for Tim's father still lives in Germany om tells us that receives your calls continues to ignore until today he has not paid a single cent in maintenance what do you feel today when you think of this man I do not feel anything at all if I saw him I would not even greet him and if it occurs to him to see his son I will tell him no, it is because it's too late.

I don't hate him, but I don't want anything to do with him anymore. I have some documents about the pregnancy from Germany, but I didn't know what exactly it said the whole time because it's all in German but he has all the official papers. He didn't give it to me, just a photocopy. He said he didn't need the original. At that time the baby had not yet been born and he did not know what. What German law was like and what she had to do Meanwhile she was with the documents at a German-Thai law firm. She explained to him that her boyfriend had acknowledged paternity in writing in Germany before going into hiding.

She now she tries. With the help of a lawyer, find out the father's new address and enforce support payments, especially so that her son Tim can later go to a slightly better school. Kilometers further away, on the outskirts of the city, is the somewhat more worthy beach of Pataya. We meet Stefan from Hesse. He calls himself a YouTuber and regularly publishes a video diary in which he lets interested Germans share his daily life and his adventures. Stefan and the Thai women or those in love with Thailand. He did a three-part series. I actually finished the topic.

You always wanted to see what happens next, to tell more women's stories. Of course, hopefully this is a finite story, but of course the story continues and today I tell you what happened in the last 2 D months. So stay tuned, hello sa Cup and Eigude the Stefan here in love with Thailand end of part three furious here one climax chases the next and I can definitely take that in a double meaning, but how did Lindenberg sing back then a heart that can you repair now? I have to find the right nurse. She had a contact. I call her.

Meanwhile, Sissi works at a massage not far from me. Susi has announced herself from the far north. I went out with Mausi on Thursday night and then went to Clementine's house. Here Pataja is also a good girl and you just can't get rid of BST women in the laundry, the moral of the story is still decent, then nothing like that will happen to you, they say at one point on their YouTube channel and they don't accuse me you are welcome. Sexual tourism. Completely different moral criteria apply here. Is it really like that? So, there are different moral criteria here.

I am not a sexturist nor am I myself a sexturist. of sexual tourism. It's a give and take. Men come here because they quickly approve that they want to have sex and it's quick and cheap, women come here because they want to make a lot of money quickly, but the thing is, it's me. He is not a slightly unstable sex tourist because they also pay money for their women and apparently according to established rules. Then there is the term short term, which means you have the woman for a short time for a certain amount. There is the term long time. you pay the woman a slightly higher amount for one day, two days or three days and then there are the real associations that are sought and if you look around on Tinder, but in the end the financial interest or payment is always there from everyone ways, it doesn't matter.

Whether it's a long-term relationship, short-term relationship, or a relationship, money flows. We are here in Thailand and it says: "With nothing wrong with the standard of living, we have a son who does not have it and in order to finance his retirement there are the children and the children then have to transfer money to the parents so that the parents also have something to eat and drink and that's why they are like that Many working women here in Pataja but that in the end means that the Germans The men here benefit from poverty because what you described is that, ultimately, they are women from poor families that they don't have another chance.

No, that's the point. If there are so many men here, there is no such thing as sexturism, then many families are condemned to poverty, then one hand washes the other, it is an undertaking given Asian women still. They are aware of their role as women, the first thing a woman does when she enters my room, first she cleans and cleans and also takes care of the man and the information that the man brings to the woman is paid in cash, so a business relationship. with a traditional distribution of roles, I want that in the room. Now I can't go any further because now I know what they are trying to achieve, but that is not the case.

They are still firmly anchored in their traditional Western way of thinking, but they have to change their way of thinking here. We are here in Asia. They think differently here, the Asians think that Stefan will produce his next Internetp tonight, but there is some serious YouTube competition in town. She calls herself the Queen of Pataya, a sex worker who gives advice on the city's supposedly hottest addresses and more. everyone praises her colleagues Today she is at a foam party with clips of her generating up to a million clicks that are filming here today at a foam party to promote this saunacub or to promote her friends .

I want as many to come as possible. Thailand and meeting my favorite places and friends and I want you to see what a beautiful smile some of us have and this is what it looks like on the Internet. Here the self-proclaimed Queen of Pataya is advertising her favorite hotel where six women live. Apparently, workers are rented along with the rooms. As I said, prostitution is officially banned in Thailand and we are surprised by how openly it is advertised on YouTube. If we look closer, we find exactly this hotel not only on the main booking portals, but also.

In Germany's largest travel company, TUI, the place Selina is promoted on its home page, the hotel itself responds to our request and does not deserve it. German travel industry on sex tourism in Pataya and if so, why are red light hotels marketed? to TUI and we wait for the response. Right next to the hotels and the red light districts are the Patajas neighborhoods. Today, the child protectors of the Human Aid Network are on duty because the children who are outside the poor neighborhoods are the most. Defenseless and therefore the easiest victims for pedophile criminals, children today learn through play how to protect themselves from attacks in the red light district and which parts of their body they cannot touch under any circumstances, say defenders of the childhood.

Of course there is a big difference between adult prostitution and child abuse, but there are connections, you definitely see a shared responsibility on the part of Western travel companies because most tourists get a lot of information from their tour operators, for example about entry and visa. requirements for Thailand, but what they never explain to them is that there are certain moral and traditional values ​​that apply in our country and they also have to accept tourists. Even if Thailand is known for sex tourism, that doesn't mean. that here strangers can do whatever they want, not all prostitutes are and that is what we teach the children here.

Aggressive behavior is not okay and is not socially accepted. We have an invitation to an important police press conference in Pataya. He traveled from Bangkok to report on the latest successes in the fight against illegal sex studios and child prostitution. Much of Paraja's illegal sex industry is now in the hands of the Chinese mafia, we asked, she recently informed us that the. Kobra was closed in Pataya because minors worked there and a German client was arrested. Can you tell us what happened to the suspect? Yes, witness interviews have shown that he had sexual relations with at least one underage prostitute with whom he is accused. child abuse the british owner is being investigated for human trafficking the german is now in custody we are waiting for the court case to be opened the message from the police chief is clear there is no mercy for pedocriminals sex tourists the laws are applied consistently but what He doesn't We don't know that night, a few days later, the German suspect manages to leave Thailand under scandalous circumstances, we manage to get in touch with the German suspect, completely unexpectedly, he grants us an interview in Frankfurt where he is.

He fled to Germany using luxuries. Bribe payments because he did not receive a fair trial in Thailand. But he says that he wants to remain anonymous and doesn't want to show his face. Why do they get in front of our camera because I just want to show this injustice? start here The accusation of which I have been accused is, of course, entirely in Thai, although I cannot know what he says. Here I now have the document that assured that I can leave the country. Several people signed it. , which means a prosecutor and a judge had to do it Sign yes and it was started by a police officer of course all for cheap money yes that cost me more than a million Thaibad I have it here I have it to show us a phone mobile phone that should prove that you really have the equivalent of 50,000 euros.

He paid a bribe to leave Thailand, although there is still a criminal case against him for sexually abusing children. He denies it. Unfortunately I have many people with proof that they can simply claim that the women are underage, if you want I will show you a video here, yes this woman was definitely 15 at the time, yes and it is you. I just have to say in defense that a man simply cannot see the younger one at the moment, for example, I will show him that time it was her. Here, for God's sake, yes, you don't really think about seeing children.

First of all, you have to say it again. You can't see that with a Thai woman. She could really show him a lie. They show me there like a photo, no, yes, that's it. Of course not, but at the latest it had to be clear to them that they had ended up in your pedophile bar, of course, I mean, the poor people, I have to say, they didn't lie to me, he told me punctually. blank that she was 15. So that would ultimately mean that the accusations against her are true, the accusations are simply against me. I have to admit she was in a bar where minors worked and I probably took a minor with me, yes she was.

A special case for me because I vomit several times. She went to her house but I don't want to sugarcoat it. I took her out of the bar with the goal of having sex with her at my house. That's right, but yeah. The accusations are true, so why do you feel this way? I just feel like the police treat me unfairly because I wonder how so many inferior women can work in a bar and if I were a pedophile then I would have to say yes. It would have been easy, no, I have to say yes, I've seen it.

In just a few weeks I have seen countless bars where pedophiles work and it is very easy to go to these short term hotels and bring a woman there and no one will know. my name or what I've done at the bar Well, I don't want to assume anything, but you know the scene very well. You know how it works. If you go to Thailand for 30 years, go with friends. and they all go B, then you see it. I have to say that you can almost say that it is like the Viermarkt because women are just commodities that are simply marketed and it is getting bigger and bigger and all the people, it is almost an industry are adapting to it but Maybe it is not Good idea to stay in this market, but I would also recommend everyone not to go there in the future.

After this interview, we are left with unanswered questions. The most pressing questions are: Why is this man not being investigated? in Germany? Information from the competent prosecutor's offices They are not aware of the case and although there are two liaison officers from the Federal Criminal Police Office in Bangkok who are normally informed when Germans are investigated, the Pataya court explains that the suspect was gone on a business trip he was allowed to go on unless ordered, and then he was not allowed to go to Thailand. Returned proceedings are on hold until the arrest warrant is executed.

Our question is why the German authorities were not informed. Left unanswered, the question remains how Germany's largest travel company tells us in writing about this hotel in Pataya that they knew nothing about Zen in the house. I relied on a database of beds and now made sure that the Selina Blaz can no longer. booking through the TUI site and after pointing out that many other hotels are being marketed on the TUI site that are located in the middle of the Pataja red light district and that there are currently a large number there again. Problems with kinderpr b responded again and We have been informed in writing.

We have now checked the hotel offer again and have blocked the interfaces with the hotels in that district via the database. We have also indicated to the databases ofbeds that these hotels were not included in the first place. Portfolio and to check that it meets the ePad criteria EKP is an internationally active German children's rights organization, based here in Freiburg Jana Schremp and her colleagues have been reminding travel companies of their social responsibility for decades. Most companies now have volunteering. In its commitment against child prostitution, the TUI is removing all hotels in the Patja red light district from its program.

This is an encouraging sign for them, but German travel companies are still making money from sex tourism and this is problematic. It surprises me a little. Quality management is for all private companies. It's a big issue for businesses, so it can't be that difficult to take into account issues such as PR institution practice and child protection risks, but also. What the research clearly shows is that perpetrators have a lot to do. Low risk of being detected, they fear nothing and that has to change. We will not be able to prevent all crimes against children. Perfidious strategies to reach children, manipulate them, make them dependent, but we have to make it more difficult for them.

What about the role of the German police? So how is it possible that no investigation is carried out against a man who? He is said to have abused children in Thailand and fled to Germany. That is not surprising, but it is quite clear that there is no flow of information if there is no complaint in Germany, of course, no one can investigate, but. Of course, he has put his finger on the wound, why is he informed? Why don't the Thai authorities inform the German liaison officer that he is in Bangkok, but German law exists? That is why, of course, we have this extraterritorial principle, because German criminals can also be prosecuted in Germany for crimes committed abroad.

We once asked prosecutors and courts in Germany, who actually determined how many cases between 2005 and 2015 were prosecuted under extraterritorial legislation: there were 38. Probably not all of them were found, but it's very simple, we have this good legal framework, there is no gap, but we have an implementation gap, after almost a year of research, we are finishing ours. Filming in a mess. The sex worker om was still receiving child support payments from Germany, her lawyer is trying to find the new address of her child's father, her chances of getting some money for little Tim are good and the sex tourist in shambles continues with her normal daily life. or what is considered completely normal here