95 French people arrested including a 16-year-old teenager, 16,000 users, 156,000 videos… a huge child pornography network dismantled

On December 19, 2024, the gendarmes announced the impressive figures of a raid carried out against a huge child pornography network.

The figures collected by BFMTV are chilling. This Thursday, the French gendarmes completed a vast operation to dismantle a child pornography network.

95 French

According to our colleagues, the military identified 95 French people among the users of a channel on the encrypted messaging service Signal. While the vast majority are adults aged 18 to 74, a 16-year-old teenager is among them.

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16,000 users

These telegram groups had 16,320 users. They were connecting from 130 different countries. “Many in Central and South America,” the police specified.

The military passed on information and evidence about them to Interpol.

156,000 videos

The military found 156,000 videos and 375,000 pornographic photos. These searches mobilized 570 investigators and 140 cybersecurity specialists.

The police seized 152 mobile phones and 122 computers. The child pornography data weighs in total 217 terabytes.

10 days of operations

< p>BFMTV adds that the arrests took about ten days, at the initiative of the Versailles research section. Between December 9 and this Thursday, the 19th, dozens of arrests and searches were carried out.

These 95 men live all over France: Île-de-France, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, Nouvelle-Aquitaine and finally in the Grand-Est.