The men who go to the town know that to have sex with a child, you don't have to take a plane to Thailand, you just need to take your BMW over the border. Welcome to the child-prostitution capital of Europe. The girl climbs into the car and they disappear into the night.
The lone driver rolls down the passenger-door window and speaks briefly to the teenage girl standing in the bitter cold. A black BMW with a German licence plate and a baby chair on the back seat stops at a street corner. By 10 p.m., the shops are long shut, but the cars still arrive. By day, the BMWs and Mercedes come to buy cheap cigarettes and alcohol.
German cars are not unusual in the Czech border town of Cheb.
