Gauthier Delomez 8:00 p.m., February 19, 2023
Mother of three children and housekeeper in Lyon, Neila has embarked on a fight against online pedophile criminals.
Frightened by various reports on the subject, she co-founded a collective that adopts a strategy to identify these adults, and have them condemned.
She recounts her approach in Olivier Delacroix's Free Antenna.
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At the microphone of Olivier Delacroix that evening, Neila, 37, a cleaning lady in Lyon, explains that she has been leading an online fight for several years to have pedophiles convicted.
"An unbearable plague" for Neila.
Cleaning lady in everyday life, the 37-year-old Lyonnaise contacted Olivier Delacroix in the Free antenna of Europe 1 to discuss his fight against pedocrime on the Internet.
“I am a mother of three children”, she informs first, without saying their ages for safety.
"I want to protect them because I have an activity which is dangerous, in the sense that I have received some threats", explains the listener.
"More than 200 arrests around the world"
Neila co-founded the Team Moore collective in Lyon, which aims to be a "citizen movement for the protection of children on the Internet".
"In fact, we pretend to be minors on the Internet. Pedocriminals come into contact with us, we denounce them to justice and then they are arrested and sentenced", details the mother of three children on Europe 1. She underlines that this collective has sent more than 120 cases to justice.
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“We arrested more than 75 individuals, 37 of whom were convicted. Trials are to come, and in 2019, we created a movement in the sense that we allowed the creation of several collectives and associations that use our method. This movement, added to our group, (made it possible to) accumulate more than 200 arrests around the world."
These are mainly French-speaking countries, such as France, Belgium, Canada, but also foreign countries such as Italy or El Salvador.
Friend requests "after a few minutes"
The listener says she was shocked by a report by journalist Karl Zéro on a child criminal network, published in 2015. "I saw other (reports)", she adds, "and then I woke up one morning saying to myself "no, it's not possible. We are in France, a country where there are rights, a certain protection of children. And I wanted to act modestly, at my humble level Then I wondered, as a cleaning lady, what I could do, and I was informed. I was told to go see a whistleblower who had already set up a fake profile. of a child, and who had already made arrests."
"I met him, and I wanted to do the same as him. He taught me how to make a profile because there are rules" to respect, she reports to Olivier Delacroix, " to avoid procedural flaws.
"When I put my first virtual child online, after a few minutes, I already had lots of friend requests. I was contacted by dozens of adults, and mainly men. The goal was to have naked photos of the child, they masturbated, they sent photos of their sex and made dates for the purpose of having sex."
"I was amazed to see that," says the Lyon listener.
"With the whistleblower, we decided to create a movement and that it was necessary to be hundreds, even thousands to do so to fight this scourge and fight against a system. In fact, we are fighting at the same time against paedocriminals, but also against the authorities so that they take charge of our cases. We had to fight against social networks. It was a really grueling fight, but which is bearing fruit today in the sense that we have gained in legitimacy" with justice personnel, admits Neila, who also points to "support from the police, gendarmes, prosecutors".
One in ten children victim of sexual solicitation
Building on this success, however, the mother of the family regrets the effectiveness of the technique.
"It's sad to see that a child online is stalked very quickly," she breathes, relying on "a Europol survey which estimates that one in ten children is the target of sexual solicitation on social networks. It's just enormous. And we, we see it when we do nothing, we are an average child. We post publications about animals, the favorite youtuber, and they are the ones who come to us search, never the other way around."
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The Lyon listener also warns of the presence of "these sexual predators" "behind online video games, where many pretend to be children themselves".