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Anti-pedophile netting: how the police carried out the shock operation

2020-10-08T20:32:45.172Z


Between Monday and Thursday, the judicial police arrested 65 suspects in 49 departments: consumers of child pornography


On the pile side, Fabien H. is an educator without history.

A bachelor unknown to justice who uses his free time by volunteering with two football clubs in the north of Meurthe-et-Moselle.

On his Facebook profile, this thirty-something publishes many photos of the children he supervises on weekends around the lawns, or of his outings to an amusement park in the region with the teens from his club.

On the face of it, this Internet user who consumes child pornography is now suspected of having sexually abused a boy around ten years old from his entourage.

In his computer, investigators from the Central Office for the Repression of Violence to Persons (OCRVP) and the judicial police of Metz (Moselle), who arrested him on Wednesday October 7 in the morning in a village in the east of the France, have also discovered videos of the rapes as well as images filmed clandestinely in the locker rooms of sports clubs.

“It's a terrible shock, blows the president of one of the clubs where Fabien H. was a volunteer.

With us, he assisted educators who looked after teams under 13 years old.

I was just called yesterday by the PJ of Metz to find out if he had had inappropriate gestures with children… But we never suspected anything!

"

Like this unsuspected educator, 65 people suspected of downloading and viewing child pornography images and videos were arrested between Monday and Thursday across the country by the judicial police during an operation called "Police2Pédo".

An anti-pedophile campaign of rare magnitude and carried out in 49 departments, including Ile-de-France, Bouches-du-Rhône, Loire-Atlantique, Pas-de-Calais, Isère or even the Bas-Rhin.

Software designed by the FBI

The investigations are aimed at Internet users of peer-to-peer pedophile download networks (P2P, peer to peer).

It is a system of direct file exchange between users, without recourse to servers as intermediaries, often used for illegal purposes.

OCRVP investigators, coordinators of the operation, traced the suspects' contentious connections and identified their IP addresses using surveillance software designed by the FBI: Child Protection System (CPS).

Among the 65 alleged pedophiles, there are people with a so-called "sensitive" profession, that is to say in contact with children: educators, teachers, town hall officials ... At least thirteen of them were already known for pedophile offenses or registered in the register of sex offenders and criminals (Fijais).

The suspects are between 28 and 75 years old and are almost entirely men, even if we also find among them a couple in their forties from Le Havre (Seine-Maritime) who together consulted photos depicting child abuse.

From all these Internet users, the police seized an enormous quantity of computer equipment: more than 70 computers, phones or tablets, 100 external hard drives, 120 USB keys or CDs ...

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The first examinations of these computer media are cold in the back: in addition to the hundreds of thousands of sordid photos or videos, the police discovered facts constituting rape of minors targeting at least four suspects, including Fabien H. But the number of assaults revealed could increase over the course of technical analyzes, which have only just begun.

They could take several weeks: one of the suspects had downloaded more than 170 terabytes of prohibited content!

An industrial volume that forced him to install a hydraulic system at his home to cool his servers ...

From computer scientist to town hall employee

The crackdown began Monday morning in Val-de-Marne, where the brigade for the protection of minors (BPM) of the Paris judicial police picked up a 54-year-old computer scientist, father of a family.

The analysis of its computer equipment allowed the discovery of more ... than 110,000 child pornography images and 2,000 videos of child sexual abuse.

In front of investigators, the man also admitted that he had been raping his 14-year-old daughter since she was nine years old.

When questioned, relatives of the suspect said they had surprised him repeatedly touching him.

"I hope that we will not learn that he was in contact with other children in one way or another," fears a citizen of the small suburban town where he resided.

"It is a family tragedy and a concern for us", supports a local elected official.

The arrests carried out by all the DIPJs in France - Lyon or Montpellier, for example - with the support of the OCRVP then multiplied during the day on Tuesday.

In the region of Orleans (Loiret), it is a truck driver who was arrested in possession of thousands of child pornography files… and sex dolls representing the bodies of little girls.

In Limoges (Haute-Vienne), it is a town hall employee without history who was arrested.

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In Normandy, the police knocked on the door of the imam of a mosque whose connection was spotted on pedophile networks.

In police custody, he justified the downloading of these contents by "curiosity", but was nevertheless referred to Evreux (Eure) because of the unequivocal volume: 422 child pornography photos.

In Loire-Atlantique, investigators discovered during a search of a thirty-something a video showing him sexually assaulting a seven-year-old child.

A suspect already the subject of a complaint 30 years ago

A third wave of arrests, Wednesday, also allowed investigators to arrest a retired professor who had already been on the radar of justice for pedophilia ... 30 years ago!

Resident in a village in Savoie, this 64-year-old man, a former local elected official, had been the subject of a complaint in 1990 and had been automatically moved from his school in 2008 after the report of parents.

He admitted to the police that he was downloading child pornography files today.

"I fell from the clouds, we never knew anything about his past stories in national education," says a member of his entourage.

This vast crackdown in pedophile circles reminds us that it is not only a question of perverse consultations: behind each of the hundreds of thousands of child pornography images downloaded is hiding a child victim of sexual exploitation.

Some of the 65 suspects have already been brought to justice at the end of their custody with a view to prosecution, indictment or even imprisonment.

Source: leparis

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