Stalking | Harassment Leipzig

The term “stalking” comes from English hunting language and can be translated as “sneaking up on” or “stalking.” Stalking, or harassment, is a criminal offense. Victims of stalking are subjected against their will to obsessive pursuit, harassment, and/or threats by a known or unknown person. The stalker can trigger post-traumatic stress disorder in the victim through phone calls (telephone harassment), threatening text messages and threatening emails (cyberstalking), surveillance, and spying, which can lead to severe psychological consequences such as fear, anxiety, or panic.

Our Leipzig private detectives put a stop to stalkers by proving the offense in a court-admissible manner and thereby preparing criminal proceedings by the authorities and injunction claims: +49 341 3549 012-0.

Stalkers – Often Not Strangers

In most cases, the victim knows the stalker, who stalks the victim mainly for two reasons: extreme affection or unbridled anger. In the first case, the stalker does not only harass the victim with constant observation, but also with excessive displays of sympathy such as gifts, flower deliveries, and love letters; in the second case, with disturbances, threatening letters, and sometimes physical violence. The stalker usually does not comply with requests to stop the behavior – they are inaccessible to reason. Here, our qualified private detectives at Aaden Detective Agency in Leipzig can help you. They observe the perpetrator, document their behavior, and, if desired, confront them with it. If they then do not stop their behavior, we can provide you with the documentation as court-admissible evidence.

Terror from a Distance

In a few cases, perpetrators stalk their victims without the victim knowing the stalker. A secret admirer showers the victim with the aforementioned expressions of love and thus causes restlessness and feelings of fear, because the victim constantly feels watched. In contrast, the stalker anonymously threatens the victim and knowingly harms them by, for example, damaging the house or car, ordering goods in the victim’s name and at the victim’s financial expense, and much more. In these cases, the victim does not even know who is behind it, and above all why these actions are being carried out. Here, our investigators at Aaden Corporate Detective Agency Leipzig offer competent, case-specific support. The first step is to determine who might be considered a perpetrator, whether anything in your circumstances has changed that could have triggered the stalking, and whether the perpetrator’s behavior pattern reveals clues about their identity. Our detectives in Leipzig will also be happy to advise you by email if needed: info@aaden-detektive-leipzig.de.

Interesting Facts About Stalking | Harassment

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• Victims are significantly more often female (80 %) than male (20 %); perpetrators are more often male than female. About one in ten people is stalked at least once during their lifetime.
• Stalking can escalate into physical violence.
• Perpetrators often also show mental illnesses and/or personality disorders (erotomania).
• An average stalking case lasts about 1 year.
• Cases are known in which a stalker harassed their victim for 10 years or longer.
• Often, the stalker and victim had a long-term romantic relationship before the stalking began. Well-known public figures (stars) from radio and television are more often victims of stalking, often by former partners or by strangers (fanatical admirers).
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