To this day, he still can't get the pictures on his desk out of his head, says an investigator.
It is partly "about very young children".
Minors, no doubt, of primary school age.
Nude photography in nature;
a girl who satisfied a man.
There are photos that the former German national player Christoph Metzelder is said to have sent via WhatsApp to a woman from Hamburg, Samanta J. * (name changed) in the summer of 2019.
The two already knew each other then.
In the chat they talked about sexual fantasies, borders and taboos.
Until she received the first children's pictures and alerted the police.
When the process starts on Thursday in Düsseldorf, the question for the ex-soccer star will be whether he has not already lost the most important fight.
Metzelder's reputation has been destroyed, many believe irreparable, and he has been avoiding public appearances for months.