Detained 56 people in Spain in operation against pedophilia – Prensa Latina

November 10, 2016, 05:55Madrid, 10 nov (PL) At least 56 people were arrested in several regions of Spain during a macrooperación against child pornography, reported today the National Police force.

the detainees, who are accused of distributing on the Internet images of abuse of extreme seriousness to children of very young age, they seized a large amount of files, said the armed institute after 39 house searches in 28 provinces.

In a statement, the Police said that the raid involved more than 150 agents and 46 trial courts.

The majority of the suspected paedophiles are between the ages of 40 and 60 years, and some of them had already been arrested previously for acts of an identical nature.

Sharing files with child pornography through Peer to Peer networks (P2P), one of the most widely used systems for the exchange of this type of criminal content.

according To the source, distributed, and sold through the network of networks, a vast amount of material a pedophile.

As part of the operation seized numerous computers, more than 173 hard disks and 614 CD and DVD, where they stored several gigs of pictures (a gig can hold about 10 thousand snapshots) and videos illegal committed by girls and boys.

The investigation, which lasted for a year and a half, became one of the most important operational against the distribution of material of a pedophile this year, both in the number of detainees, as well as in volume of pornographic files of children and girls shared.

The researchers made a thorough

examination of the massive equipment involved to determine the possible existence of crimes of sexual abuse of minors on the part of any of the parties involved, in addition to the offence of production of material a pedophile.

in Addition, trace possible connections with other pedophiles or predators that interact in the network.

Since 2012, the National Police of Spain arrested or charged with more than 960 people for offences related to the production, dissemination and/or possession of child pornography and corruption of minors via the Internet, according to recent data.

In a macrooperación police against pedophilia, carried out last 25th of July in 14 provinces, about 21 people were imprisoned for the same cause.

five months Ago, 13 suspected pedophiles were captured in nine countries, including Spain, during the other device against the production and distribution on the Internet of material of sexual abuse of minors.

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