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To Catch a Predator, Auf Deutsch

Tatort Internet (Crime Scene Internet), the German version of “To Catch a Predator,” seems to be a controversial as its U.S. counterpart. Its host, Stephanie von Guttenberg, a descendant of Otto von Bismarck and the wife of a German minister, is a fast-rising tv star, defends the show’s tactic of luring and then exposing sexual predators on screen. But the show is receiving criticism for not following the law.