Nine arrests in Catania for pedopornography, thousands of files with abuse, even on very young children, seized.

Nine people have been arrested in flagrante delicto by the police as part of a large-scale operation across the country to combat online child pornography, coordinated by the District Attorney’s Office of Catania. The investigation, conducted by the Cyber Security Operations Center of the Catania Postal Police, allowed to investigate 26 people in different regions for possession and dissemination of child pornography material, subjected to personal and computer searches. Thousands of files, exchanges of disturbing images and videos, with abuses even on very young children, have been seized.

The investigations, coordinated by the National Center for the Fight against Online Child Pornography (Cncpo) of the Postal Police service, started from a complex activity of computer analysis on some electronic devices seized from a suspect, arrested months ago for the same conduct, on which – within a messaging platform – groups dedicated to the exchange of disturbing images and videos, with abuses even on very young children, were found.

Meticulous and complex investigations, also of an extremely technical nature, led to the identification of the subjects active on the groups, against whom the Catania District Attorney’s Office issued orders for personal and computer searches.

The searches were carried out with the collaboration of the various Cyber Security Operations Centers of the Postal Police in Catania (1), Rome (3), Milan (3), Brescia (2), Varese (1), Bergamo (1), Catanzaro (1), Bari (2), Foggia (1), Turin (2), Cuneo (1), Genoa (2), Imperia (1), Avellino (1), Livorno (1), Prato (1), Ravenna (1), Ascoli Piceno (1).

The arrested individuals reside in the provinces of Catania (1), Rome (1), Milan (2), Florence (1), Bergamo (1), Ravenna (1), Varese (1) and Imperia (1). One of them, in addition to thousands of child pornography files, had in his cloud the digital format of the book “A Pedophile’s Guide”. The material found and seized during the searches is under review by the Catania District Attorney’s Office and the Postal Police for further investigative insights useful also for the identification of the young victims.


Pedopornografia, sequestrati migliaia di file con abusi anche su piccolissimi, nove arresti a Catania

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