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Berlin-Weißensee: two pupils of the Heinz-Brandt-Schule are suspected of creating and distributing AI-generated sexualised nude images of female classmates in at least three cases; the school suspended them and sanctioned pupils who are said to have known and not reported, and the police's sexual-offences unit investigates with liability under section 184c StGB (youth pornography) under consideration

On 'the previous Friday' (19 June 2026, read relative to the 24 June 2026 report) the leadership of the Heinz-Brandt-Schule in Berlin-Weißensee (Pankow district) learned that two of its pupils were suspected of having created and distributed AI-generated sexualised nude images of female classmates; the school wrote to parents that it was 'shocked and appalled' that classmates' photographs had been abused in this way and described the alleged acts as a massive attack on the personality rights of the affected girls and a form of sexualised violence. The two pupils alleged to be mainly responsible were suspended from lessons with immediate effect, and the school imposed measures on pupils who are said to have known about the images without reporting them. The Senate Department for Education confirmed the incidents and the ongoing investigation in the Tagesspiegel's report of 24 June 2026. The school's letter says the investigation is conducted on behalf of the public prosecutor. A Berlin police spokesman said complaints had been filed over the creation of so-called deepfakes, that the investigation had been taken over by the State Criminal Police Office unit responsible for sexual offences against minors, and that criminal liability for possessing, obtaining, creating or distributing youth pornography under section 184c of the Criminal Code was under consideration; the police gave no further details, citing victim protection. At least three cases are alleged. The school said it would revise its prevention and sex-education concepts and asked parents to talk to their children about handling other people's photographs and AI applications. Nobody is named; the number of girls depicted is not reported.

AI System

AI image-generation ('deepfake') tool, not named

Occurred

19 Jun 2026

Reported

24 June 2026

Event location

Germany

Platform

other

What the evidence supports

AI involvement: reported. The school's letter and the Senate education administration describe KI-generated sexualised nude images; the police spokesman refers to complaints over the creation of deepfakes. No tool is named and no forensic detail is public. The artifacts depicted the girls; no AI system interacted with them.

AI-to-person relation

  • Depicted or impersonated the person

Core relations are communication, acting on someone’s behalf, and depiction or impersonation. Decision and claim relations are retained as contextual cases.

Someone else’s AI use. Settings: Education, Privacy, Justice.

Claim status: Reported

Two pupils of the Heinz-Brandt-Schule in Berlin-Weißensee are suspected of having created and distributed AI-generated sexualised nude images of female classmates in at least three cases; the school leadership learned of the incidents on 'the previous Friday' (19 June 2026, read relative to the 24 June 2026 report), informed parents in a letter, and the Senate Department for Education confirmed the incidents and the investigation.

Causal attribution: The school's letter and the Senate confirmation as reported by the Tagesspiegel; 'vergangenen Freitag' before the 24 June 2026 report is 19 June 2026.

  • News report (supports): 'An der Heinz-Brandt-Schule in Berlin-Weißensee wird gegen zwei Schüler wegen des Verdachts ermittelt, KI-generierte sexualisierte Nacktbilder von Mitschülerinnen erstellt und verbreitet zu haben.'; 'Die Senatsverwaltung für Bildung bestätigte dem Tagesspiegel die Vorfälle und die laufenden Ermittlungen.'; 'Den Schülern sollen mindestens drei Fälle vorgeworfen werden. Die Schulleitung informierte die Schulgemeinschaft, dass sie am vergangenen Freitag von den Vorfällen erfahren habe.'

Claim status: Reported

The two pupils alleged to be mainly responsible were suspended from lessons with immediate effect and the school imposed measures on pupils who are said to have known of the images and not reported them; the school called the alleged acts a massive attack on the affected girls' personality rights and a form of sexualised violence and said it would revise its prevention and sex-education concepts.

Causal attribution: The school's letter as reported.

  • News report (supports): 'Die beiden mutmaßlich hauptverantwortlichen Schüler seien mit sofortiger Wirkung vom Unterricht suspendiert worden. Zudem habe die Schule Maßnahmen gegen Schülerinnen und Schüler verhängt, die von den Bildern gewusst, die Vorfälle jedoch nicht gemeldet haben sollen.'; 'In dem Schreiben bezeichnet die Schulleitung die mutmaßlichen Taten als „massiven Angriff auf die Persönlichkeitsrechte der betroffenen Schülerinnen“ und als „Form sexualisierter Gewalt“.'; 'Als Reaktion wolle die Schule ihr Präventionskonzept sowie das Konzept zur Sexualerziehung überarbeiten.'

Claim status: Reported

A Berlin police spokesman said complaints had been filed over the creation of deepfakes, that the State Criminal Police Office unit for sexual offences against minors had taken over the investigation, and that liability for possessing, obtaining, creating or distributing youth pornography under section 184c of the Criminal Code was under consideration; the school's letter says the investigation is conducted on behalf of the public prosecutor.

Causal attribution: Police spokesman as quoted by the Tagesspiegel; the prosecutor's role is the school letter's statement.

  • News report (supports): '„Es liegen Anzeigen wegen der Erstellung sogenannter Deepfakes vor“, sagte ein Sprecher der Berliner Polizei.'; 'Die Ermittlungen dazu habe die Abteilung des Landeskriminalamts übernommen, die für Sexualdelikte zum Nachteil Minderjähriger zuständig sei.'; 'Dabei komme eine Strafbarkeit wegen des Besitzes, der Beschaffung, der Erstellung oder Verbreitung von Jugendpornografie nach Paragraf 184 c des Strafgesetzbuchs in Betracht.'; 'Die Schule habe die Polizei eingeschaltet, die Ermittlungen würden im Auftrag der Staatsanwaltschaft geführt.'

What remains unknown

  • How many girls were depicted; 'at least three cases' is a count of alleged acts, not of persons.
  • The ages of the suspects and of the depicted pupils, and the tool used.
  • When the images were created and how they were distributed.
  • Whether charges followed; no development after June 2026 was found on 2026-09-22.
  • The Berliner Morgenpost's first report was not read.
  • The date of the school's letter is not given; 19 June 2026 assumes 'am vergangenen Freitag' is relative to the week of the 24 June report.
Source reading, translation and location

News report · de · Source inspected

Read live in German on 2026-09-22 (Der Tagesspiegel, 24 June 2026 14:39, marked 'Update', with dpa). Own reporting: the school leadership's letter to parents, statements from the Senate Department for Education, a Berlin police spokesman and the Pankow district parents' committee. Translated by the reviewer.

Event countries: Germany. Affected-person countries: Germany. Court countries: Unknown.

Heinz-Brandt-Schule, Berlin-Weißensee, Pankow district; Berlin police and public prosecutor (Tagesspiegel). No court proceeding reported.

Reviewed for publication 2026-09-22: Published under the 2026-09-15 charter as an image-based abuse case affecting minors at a school, documented by the school's letter, the Senate education administration and the police through one newspaper's own reporting (single article, several official origins, recorded as reported). Not a death case. Nobody is named.

What Happened

The Tagesspiegel reported on 24 June 2026 that two pupils of the Heinz-Brandt-Schule in Berlin-Weißensee were under investigation on suspicion of having created and distributed AI-generated sexualised nude images of female classmates, citing an internal letter from the school leadership to parents that the paper had obtained; the Senate Department for Education confirmed the incidents and the ongoing investigation and said the school supervisory authority was supporting the school; the Berliner Morgenpost had reported first. The Senate department stated: 'Wir nehmen Fälle sexualisierter Gewalt an Schulen grundsätzlich sehr ernst' and that the school leadership had acted immediately on learning of the events, informing the school community, applying disciplinary or educational measures and involving the police at once. At least three cases are alleged against the pupils; the school leadership told the community it had learned of the incidents on the previous Friday and was 'erschrocken und entsetzt' that classmates' photographs had been abused in this way. The school had involved the police, whose investigation is conducted on behalf of the public prosecutor; the two pupils alleged to be mainly responsible were suspended from lessons with immediate effect, and the school imposed measures on pupils who are said to have known of the images without reporting them; the head teacher declined to comment. In its letter the leadership called the alleged acts a 'massiven Angriff auf die Persönlichkeitsrechte der betroffenen Schülerinnen' and a 'Form sexualisierter Gewalt', said it would revise its prevention and sex-education concepts, and asked parents to talk with their children about handling other people's photographs and AI applications. A police spokesman said: 'Es liegen Anzeigen wegen der Erstellung sogenannter Deepfakes vor'; the investigation had been taken over by the State Criminal Police Office department responsible for sexual offences against minors; criminal liability for possession, acquisition, creation or distribution of youth pornography under section 184c StGB was under consideration; the police gave no further details for victim-protection reasons. The Pankow district parents' committee called for fast, visible action by the school supervisory authority and said the school leadership had acted immediately.

Reported harm

Female pupils were depicted in AI-generated sexualised nude images that were distributed at their school, which the school describes as a massive attack on their personality rights and a form of sexualised violence; the creation and distribution are attributed by the school's letter to two suspended pupils, and the police confirm complaints over the creation of deepfakes and an investigation by the LKA unit for sexual offences against minors. No account from the depicted girls has been published.

Exploitation or Abuse

Outcome

Ongoing

School: the two pupils alleged to be mainly responsible were suspended from lessons with immediate effect and the school imposed disciplinary or educational measures on pupils who knew of the images and did not report them; the Senate education administration said the school had informed the school community, applied measures and involved the police immediately (Tagesspiegel, 24 June 2026). Police: complaints over the creation of deepfakes; investigation taken over by the State Criminal Police Office's unit for sexual offences against minors, conducted on behalf of the public prosecutor according to the school's letter; possible liability under section 184c StGB (youth pornography). No charge or later development was found by 22 September 2026. The record's incident date is the day the school says it learned of the incidents; when the images were made is not reported.

People described

Female pupils of the Heinz-Brandt-Schule, Berlin-Weißensee, depicted in AI-generated sexualised nude images; at least three cases alleged; number of girls not reported; treated as minors on the basis of the police framing (LKA unit for sexual offences against minors; section 184c youth pornography); ages not reported; none named

People reported harmed in this case

Not reliably quantifiable from the sources.

The report speaks of 'Mitschülerinnen' (female classmates, plural) and of 'mindestens drei Fälle' (at least three cases) alleged against the pupils, without stating how many girls were depicted; a count of cases is not a count of persons. Unquantified, with zero placeholders.

Counted once within this case. The same person may appear in other cases. This count does not establish AI causation.

Cite this case

Compiled per our published methodology: verification statuses, sourcing standards, and corrections process.

APA

NOPE. (2026). Berlin-Weißensee: two pupils of the Heinz-Brandt-Schule are suspected of creating and distributing AI-generated sexualised nude images of female classmates in at least three cases; the school suspended them and sanctioned pupils who are said to have known and not reported, and the police's sexual-offences unit investigates with liability under section 184c StGB (youth pornography) under consideration. NOPE: AI and people. https://nope.net/incidents/2026-berlin-weissensee-heinz-brandt-schule-ai-nude-images-classmates

BibTeX

@misc{2026_berlin_weissensee_heinz_brandt_schule_ai_nude_images_classmates,
  title = {Berlin-Weißensee: two pupils of the Heinz-Brandt-Schule are suspected of creating and distributing AI-generated sexualised nude images of female classmates in at least three cases; the school suspended them and sanctioned pupils who are said to have known and not reported, and the police's sexual-offences unit investigates with liability under section 184c StGB (youth pornography) under consideration},
  author = {NOPE},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {NOPE: AI and people},
  url = {https://nope.net/incidents/2026-berlin-weissensee-heinz-brandt-schule-ai-nude-images-classmates}
}

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