PRAGUE — Police in the Czech Republic are investigating groups of mostly young people hunting for pedophiles on the internet to blackmail them or beat them up, a spokesman said on Friday.

Pretending they are children, the self-proclaimed "pedophile hunters" contact sexual predators online, often exchanging pornographic material with them and asking to meet, police said.

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