The Secretary of State for Children will report to the courts facts of exposure of minors to pornography and pedocrime on Omegle, an American messaging platform very popular with college students, we learned on Wednesday at his office.
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Adrien Taquet will use in the coming days article 40 of the code of criminal procedure which imposes the obligation, "
for any constituted authority
", to report to the public prosecutor a crime or offense of which he is aware, indicated his entourage. at AFP.
The site Kool Mag, an online parenting magazine for fathers, published an investigation denouncing the presence of mature exhibitionists on this platform very frequented by young people.
This American anonymous instant messaging website allows strangers to chat via camera.
A growing number of underage users
The founder of Kool Mag, Baptiste des Monstiers, says he surfed the site on a Wednesday afternoon, and met dozens of children and teenagers aged 9 to 15, looking for new friends.
He also saw there, likely to come into contact with these children, "
dozens of men who masturbate, who exhibit themselves, some disguised as women wearing women's underwear
".
Accessible on computer and telephone, the site just asks the user to confirm that he is over 13 years old, without verifying it.
Launched in 2009, Omegle has attracted an increasing number of minors since confinement, and has a million visitors in France per month, in particular because popular youtubers meet their fans there, according to Kool Mag.
“
Many YouTubers offer their fans to talk to them directly on the Omegle site.
Basically: + I connect, come and with a little luck, we will meet +.
A kind of big wheel of fortune on which you can meet dozens of cranks and exhibitionists hanging around the site
, ”accused Baptiste des Monstiers.
In the “
Community
Guidelines” published on its English site, Omegle states that “
nudity, pornography and sexually explicit behavior and content are prohibited
in sections of its services subject to moderation.