Wednesday, October 31, 2007
The Associated Press
PARIS: French police have arrested 20 people this month as part of a European-wide crackdown on people who shared child pornography over the Internet, police said Wednesday.
Three of those rounded up were suspected of having abused children during trips abroad, French police officials said, speaking on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to talk to media.
Police said the operation concerned countries throughout Europe, including Germany, Italy, Belgium and Britain, though they did not say how many people have been arrested in total across the continent.
The investigation was supervised by Europol, the pan-European law enforcement agency, and by the EU's body of prosecutors and investigators, called Eurojust, authorities said.
The investigation was nicknamed "operation Koala" because the first information came from authorities in Australia in 2006, though the focus quickly moved to Europe. Police found 3,000 suspicious e-mail addresses during their investigations and used them to track suspects.
All 20 of those arrested in France have had preliminary charges filed against them.
About 1.5 million illegal images were seized from the computer of a French information technology specialist in his 30s who lived with his grandparents, police said. Three of the French suspects were believed to have appeared in child pornography shot abroad, principally in Cambodia, the officials said.
A former French doctor who moved to Thailand after being thrown out of France's order of doctors was a suspect, police said. He was taken into custody when he returned to France recently, police said.
Police in France also gave some details of the investigations in other European countries. One suspect who appeared in an online video spoke with a Belgian accent, tipping off the country's police. An investigator in the city of Bruges recognized the man — who filmed scenes with his daughters, ages 6, 8 and 10 — because he was already the focus of other investigations there, police said.
Under arrest, the Belgian man told authorities about an Italian filmmaker who filmed child pornography in a studio in Ukraine.
The European sweep was not linked to another recent operation in France, in which police detained more than 300 people on suspicion of spreading child pornography over the internet, police said.
Three of those rounded up were suspected of having abused children during trips abroad, French police officials said, speaking on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to talk to media.
Police said the operation concerned countries throughout Europe, including Germany, Italy, Belgium and Britain, though they did not say how many people have been arrested in total across the continent.
The investigation was supervised by Europol, the pan-European law enforcement agency, and by the EU's body of prosecutors and investigators, called Eurojust, authorities said.
The investigation was nicknamed "operation Koala" because the first information came from authorities in Australia in 2006, though the focus quickly moved to Europe. Police found 3,000 suspicious e-mail addresses during their investigations and used them to track suspects.
All 20 of those arrested in France have had preliminary charges filed against them.
About 1.5 million illegal images were seized from the computer of a French information technology specialist in his 30s who lived with his grandparents, police said. Three of the French suspects were believed to have appeared in child pornography shot abroad, principally in Cambodia, the officials said.
A former French doctor who moved to Thailand after being thrown out of France's order of doctors was a suspect, police said. He was taken into custody when he returned to France recently, police said.
Police in France also gave some details of the investigations in other European countries. One suspect who appeared in an online video spoke with a Belgian accent, tipping off the country's police. An investigator in the city of Bruges recognized the man — who filmed scenes with his daughters, ages 6, 8 and 10 — because he was already the focus of other investigations there, police said.
Under arrest, the Belgian man told authorities about an Italian filmmaker who filmed child pornography in a studio in Ukraine.
The European sweep was not linked to another recent operation in France, in which police detained more than 300 people on suspicion of spreading child pornography over the internet, police said.
12 comments:
Son of bitch!
Oh good work, but we must do better. We must also stamp "Pedophile" on their passport for easy identification.
We must also help identify all of the Viet trollers that are pretending to be Khmer that are out here on KI-Media to detroy Khmer. We allmust say...
Go home Viet troller!
Go home Vietcong!
Leave Khmer people alone!
Wrong, Khmer and Viet are Pal and will be together forever.
On the other hand, screw Ah Toothless Khmer-Yuon who know only one sentence and live in a rat's hole.
Animal Viet troller @7:40AM pretending to be Khmer must be stopped at all cost.
Go home Viet troller!
Go home Vietcong!
Oh, go back in your dark rat's hole, Ah toothless Khmer-Yuon. Khmer people don't want to have anything to do with immoral fools.
No, you Animal Viet troller @8:37AM You're the pretender pretending to be Khmer must be stopped at all cost. You must leave KI-Media and you Viet troller must leave Khmer people alone.
Now, Go home Viet troller!
Now, Go home Vietcong!
Wrong, no one will want to pretend to be Ah Khmer-Yuon and catches their moral diseases.
This animal Viet troller @09:14 AMpretending to be Khmer speaking for Khmer must be stopped at all cost. WE know who this animal is! Go home Viet troller! Go home Vietcong!
Yep, and you know fair well that we are Ah evil toothless Khmer-Yuons worse nightmare.
NO, the animal Viet troller that pretends to be Khmer on KI-Media @7:40AM, @8:37AM and @3:41AM must leave Khmer alone and go back to Hanoi where it belongs!
It is this leunatic Viet(namese) troller that SPAMS KI-Media.
KI-Media is none of the animal Viet trollers's business!
Now, Go home Viet troller!
Now, Go home Vietcong!
No problemo , once Ah Chau Maseert Khmer-Yuon chos srok norougn touv.
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