Dagi BEE offers €10,000 bounty – what is known about the crime

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€10,000, two faces on a surveillance recording, a cry for help to millions of followers: Social media personality Dagi BEE (32) launched a public manhunt appeal on Tuesday evening – after she and her family became victims of a crime last weekend.

The entrepreneur has not yet revealed exactly what happened. In her Instagram post she only made clear: The incident is not an assault. Further details about the course of events she is, by her own account, keeping to herself for now.

What is known about the incident so far

What is certain: there was a crime last weekend to the detriment of Dagi BEE and her family. Which offences – burglary, theft, threats, something else – are specifically in play cannot be gleaned from the material released so far. The influencer only speaks vaguely in the post of a crime and explicitly rules out that it was not an assault.

For you that means: right now nobody knows more – neither the police with a confirmed press release nor Dagi BEE herself with a public statement. As soon as she names details or the investigating authorities confirm something, you'll read it here first.

The surveillance footage shows the faces

What Dagi BEE is sharing instead is footage from a surveillance camera. Visible on it: two young men whose faces, according to her account, are clearly recognizable. It is precisely these images that she has posted in her Instagram story and in her feed, in order to use the reach of her community – and that is exactly the trick that many people overlook.

Most classic manhunts don't have a surveillance camera to hand so quickly, nor do they have a six-figure follower base. Dagi BEE combines both in a single post – effectively replacing a police public manhunt appeal with a private one.

€10,000 for the decisive tip

The bounty is clearly stated: Whoever provides the first useful tip that leads to the name, address or contact details of the two suspected perpetrators receives €10,000. That is what Dagi BEE writes verbatim in her appeal. Importantly: She deliberately speaks of "the first" – first come, first served. Later tipsters miss out.

Whether the money actually flows depends, of course, on whether tips come in that are solid enough to be passed on to the police. And that brings us to the catch you should keep in mind: bounties offered by private individuals are not, legally speaking, a substitute for an official manhunt. Anyone with information ultimately takes it to the police – not directly to Dagi BEE. How the influencer is arranging the practical handling of it (trustee, lawyer, direct contact) is not apparent from her post so far.

Why the incident is still making waves

Dagi BEE is one of the few German creators whose reach extends into the millions. When a person with that kind of platform publicly seeks information, the appeal reaches more people in hours than many a poster campaign hung up locally – and that is at once an opportunity and a risk. On the one hand, the pressure on the perpetrators increases massively. On the other, the danger of false naming, hate comments, and mistaken identity rises. Precisely for that reason the influencer is also restricting the tips she wants to hard facts – not speculation.

As a reader you can, above all, do one thing: share the post if you see it, and otherwise post nothing half-baked in comments or direct messages. Useful tips in such cases always go to the police, not into the timeline.