A 40-year-old Frenchman was arrested on July 7 in Gironde for administering sites on the darknet, the hidden part of the Internet, allowing "thousands of Internet users worldwide to have access to photographs or videos of a child pornography nature ", announced in a press release, Monday July 13, the parquet floor of Bordeaux.

"Identified as one of the ten priority global targets" according to the prosecutor of the Republic of Bordeaux Frédérique Porterie, the internet user, domiciled in Gironde, also seems "to have played an active role in the production of photographs or videos with character child pornography ".

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His arrest was led by investigators from the Central Office for the Suppression of Violence against Persons (OCRVP), the French judicial police, in collaboration with Europol, in charge of the fight against international child pornography networks on the darknet.

In police custody, the 40-year-old admitted the facts, which he was accused of and is in pre-trial detention. At the end of his hearings, he was indicted on July 9 on counts of "dissemination in organized gangs" and "possession and recording" of child pornography images, as well as "incestuous rapes committed on a minor by an ascendant" , and "incestuous sexual assaults on a minor 15 years old by an ascendant," detailed the prosecutor of Bordeaux.

With AFP

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