• Postal police defeat child pornography network, maxi operation throughout Italy

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11 July 2020The Postal and Communications Police has concluded a complex and delicate investigation activity that has led to the denunciation of 20 minors in freedom, in competition with each other, for the crimes of detention, disclosure, transfer of child pornography and instigation to aggravate crime. The activity was carried out by the policemen of the Postal Police Department for Tuscany coordinated by the Chief Prosecutor of the Public Prosecutor at the Juvenile Court of Florence, Antonio Sangermano. 'Dangerous Images' the name given to the operation.

The story began when a mother from Lucca, finding on the mobile phone of her fifteen-year-old son numerous hard movies with young victims protagonists, turned to the Postal Police asking for help. The analysis of the mobile phone revealed an exorbitant number of films and child pornography images, also in the form of stickers, exchanged and sold by the young man, who proved to be the organizer and promoter of the criminal activity together with other minors, through Whatsapp, Telegram and other applications instant messaging and social networks.

On the boy's phone there were also numerous "gore" files (from English "goring"), the new frontier of illegal disclosure, videos and images from the dark web depicting suicides, mutilations, gaps and beheadings of people, in some cases of animals. After more than five months of investigations, the policemen identified the subjects who for various reasons held or exchanged child pornography images and videos for which the Chief Prosecutor of the Public Prosecutor's Office at the Juvenile Court of Florence deemed it necessary to stop immediately "l "criminal activity" of the minors who shared the unconfessable secret of trying taste in a more or less conscious way in observing those images of horrible violence and with highly cruel content.

The numerous searches carried out by the Postal and Communications Police, coordinated by the CNCPO (National Center for the fight against online child pornography), were carried out against minors in the cities of Lucca, Pisa, Cesena, Ferrara, Reggio Emilia, Ancona, Naples, Milan, Pavia, Varese, Lecce, Rome, Potenza and Vicenza. The "eldest" of the group has just turned 17, the youngest is 13. To join the horror chats there were also 7 teenagers, all 13 years old.

Dozens of mobile phones and computers have been seized, from whose computer search irrefutable feedback elements have emerged. In-depth analyzes are underway by experts of the Postal Police to analyze all the media seized in order to acquire computer evidence and verify involvement. other subjects, as well as the area of ​​diffusion of the phenomenon. The investigations also continue to verify the involvement of any other people.