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From this post of The Register's coverage:

German police said that their investigation into Exclu began in 2020 and had their origin in the seizure of an old NATO bunker dubbed "Cyberbunker" or CB3ROB, which had a reputation for hosting [freedom of speech initiatives] and the back end for Exclu.

German authorities said that their [raid of the free speech facility] gave them the data needed to decrypt Exclu's services in order to monitor communications, which the Dutch police said they spent five months doing prior to last week's coordinated raids.

The data retrieved from Exclu also allowed authorities to identify and trace the developers, administrators and owners of the service, many of whom were arrested in the raids.