Five people were arrested on Thursday morning as part of an anti-pedocriminal operation conducted in Meurthe-et-Moselle. Investigators found hundreds of thousands of child pornography files on their computers.
“It is thanks to the evolution of technologies that this investigation has been possible“Explains François Pérain, public prosecutor of Nancy and to specify that these surveillance operations of the pedophile circles will be renewed regularly to counter this phenomenon, also establishing a parallel with road checks.
– Mohand Chibani
For this case, the investigations were entrusted to the cybercrime unit of the research section of the Metz gendarmerie composed of eight cyber-gendarmes. Their research area focused on the Meurthe et Moselle department. it didn’t take long to identify the four suspects. Two of them aged 53 and 64 live in rural areas and until then were unknown to the courts and the other two live in Nancy, all of whom have already been convicted of similar acts.
They were consuming child pornography from miles away
Presented on Thursday, in appearance upon admission of guilt, they received the first two defendants respectively 12 and 14 months of imprisonment with suspension of the sentence accompanied by the obligation of care and registration in the registers of the perpetrators of sexual offenses. The others were supposed to be presented on Friday in immediate appearance, but the trial had to be closed due to lack of psychiatric expertise. The prosecution asked for an arrest against them because they were in legal relapse.
During the searches, the gendarmes found hundreds of thousands of child pornography files on their computers, carefully classified by age and sex. “they were consuming child pornography images from miles away“according to the expression of the public prosecutor and”with impunity thinking that they would not be seen by anyone“. However, it is illegal underlines François Pérain, recalling that the crime is punishable by five years of imprisonment.
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