Two 24-year-old men were arrested Monday at their home in Saint-Denis-de-la-Réunion by police officers from the central office for the repression of violence against persons (OCRVP) who made the trip especially from the metropolis.
The two individuals, apparently unrelated but frequenting the same forums, were placed in police custody for the capture, possession, dissemination and exchange of child pornography images.
In April 2020, their suspicious activities were the subject of a report by the American anti-pedophilia software used by the FBI, Child Protection System.
The platform had detected suspicious downloads from Australia, in fact simple relays of VPNs (virtual private network) used by the two individuals to hide their connections from Reunion.
The suspects, posing as content producers, broadcast their images "at high volume" on the Darknet using the TOR software, indicates a source close to the investigation.
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During the hearing, one of the two suspects admitted to being the author and actor of a series of images in which he is seen abusing two young girls.
Girls from his family circle, aged 8 and 10 at the time of the events dating back to 2018.
In his computer and his computer media seized in search, local cybercrime investigators will also discover dozens of photos, some images featuring a six-month-old baby.
The young man, qualified by his defense of "lonely and tortured", employed in a fast food restaurant, was indicted and imprisoned on Thursday for the facts related to the dissemination of child pornography images, but also for rape on a fifteen-year-old minor.
Several recent cases on the island
A second judicial investigation was opened concerning the other suspect, a young man unknown to justice and who was about to marry his fiancée.
"He is a student a little geek, well inserted, but psychologically fragile and for whom everything remained of the order of the virtual", described his lawyer Me Devaguy Mardaye, pleading Wednesday for his placement under judicial supervision.
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But the Dionysian, who faces seven years in prison, was also placed in pre-trial detention.
The investigation will indeed seek to establish the conditions under which he was able to obtain certain images that he published as a producer, but which he ultimately denied being produced.
He thus implicated a third individual as being the author.
A man already imprisoned in Saint-Pierre in another matter of morals and with whom he had exchanges by means of electronic communication.
Several cyberpedophilia cases have erupted in recent months on Reunion Island, where associations of individuals "pedophile hunters" have managed to transmit to justice cases involving individuals who have sent, via Facebook, proposals of a sexual nature. to minors.
