On the evening of June 8, 2017, the coolest day of a hot summer, a battering ram breaks through an apartment door in the Karlsruhe Südweststadt. With a crash ends not only the dumb waiting of the investigators. For hours they were lying in wait nearby, staring at a screen and hoping to catch the suspect in the act. With a crash, the rise of a phantom, which called itself "Lucky", also allegedly ends. Within four years, he is said to have become one of the most important figures in the German-speaking Darknet, this parallel world unknown to most people, in which so much more is possible than in real life, where so much more is possible than in the ordinary Internet. Which is so much more unleashed, and so much more terrible.
The special forces of the Federal Office of Criminal Investigation stormed his apartment, they were quick and precise and had meticulously prepared. As they storm in, you absolutely must secure the laptop, more precisely: the open laptop should be closed. The man brings them nothing, because the suspect was not logged in. So they want to put the man who fooled them. When the phantom finally arrives in front of them, it immediately follows: Alexander U., a 29-year-old computer science student with broad shoulders, angular face, short, gelled hair.
Nevertheless, not only the investigators, but also his friends and his family are asking themselves: What helped the respectable students to become "Lucky", the man accused by the Mannheim public prosecutor's office of setting up a platform with millions in the Darknet? On offer were the dealers who registered there, thus, dealt in drugs, counterfeit money and weapons to the assault rifle. Nine people were to be murdered with one of these weapons, in a right-wing rampage in Munich.
