Josean Izarra Vitoria
Victoria
Updated Friday, March 8, 2024-13:16
A 14-year-old boy from San Sebastián was the alleged 'brain' of the creation and broadcast of pornography images that were shared in the Basque Country by hundreds of teenagers in WhatsApp groups but that had spread to other locations in the rest of Spain such as Madrid , Seville and Pamplona.
A joint device of the National Police and the Civil Guard has allowed the arrest of 12 minors, including the Gipuzkoan teenager, and another 44 adults are being investigated in a judicial procedure coordinated by an investigative court in Colmenar Viejo (Madrid).
Precisely a complaint from parents in Colmenar Viejo allowed the beginning of the investigations that have concluded with the arrest of the 12 teenagers who would lead the groups that shared pornographic videos on social networks.
Images in which babies, children and minors were used with explicit sex with adults and other minors.
The existence of these WhatsApp groups in a dozen schools and ikastolas in the Basque Country became public following complaints from mothers and fathers of teenagers.
The Basque Police then opened an investigation of which, for the moment, no results have been released.
However, the investigation initiated in Colmenar Viejo and coordinated by investigation agents from the National Police and Civil Guard has managed to identify those allegedly responsible for the distribution of this content.
According to their research, all the outreach groups had virtually identical names, such as "add everyone to go viral" or "add all the contacts you have", which were created between November 12, 2023 and November 14 of 2023.
In addition, technological research specialists managed to identify the people who were behind the Nick in charge of dissemination.
These individuals operated from San Sebastián (Guipúzcoa), Toledo, Dos Hermanas (Seville), Pamplona (Navarra) and Madrid.
The two operations activated by both police forces were called 'operation Chapela' and 'operation Savali'. With joint work, the investigators located the 14-year-old young man from San Sebastian who created and generated the content. From his computer he started and energized social networks and from a mobile phone he disseminated the video and photo files. The adolescent obtained the images for dissemination and multiple high-intensity video and photo files where babies, prepubescent children and minors were used with explicit sex with adults and others. Likewise, several mobile terminals have been intervened to disseminate pedophile content obtained from the 'deep web', the space on the Internet in which illegal content is stored and shared.
The 14-year-old boy had a simultaneous conversation with 100 profiles on a well-known social network distributing pedophile material through a computer program created 'ad hoc', according to the Civil Guard and National Police.
The existence of these groups shared by hundreds of Basque adolescents was made known in November 2023 and both the management of the centers and the Ertzaintza held meetings with students and parents to abandon these distribution channels of pornographic content and which also included messages of apology of Francoism.