French Police Arrest 20 for Child Porn
Pastor Dale Morgan
French Police Arrest 20 for Child Porn*
By JEAN-PIERRE VERGES
The Associated Press
Wednesday, October 31, 2007; 8:50 PM
PARIS -- French police arrested 20 suspects as part of a Europe-wide
crackdown on child pornography over the Internet, authorities said
Wednesday.
Three of those arrested also were suspected of having abused children
during overseas trips, French police officials said, speaking on
condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to talk to the
media.
Police said the operation involved several European nations, including
Germany, Italy, Belgium and Britain, though they did not say how many
people have been arrested outside of France.
Police found 3,000 suspicious e-mail addresses during their
investigations and used them to track suspects.
About 1.5 million illegal images were seized from the computer of a
French information technology specialist, police said.
French police also said a Belgium man who appeared in an online video
was arrested in his country after being recognized by authorities there
because he was already the focus of other investigations.
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Police said the man then told authorities about a Catholic Italian
filmmaker who filmed child pornography in a studio in Ukraine.
The European sweep was not linked to another recent operation in France,
in which police detained more than 300 people on suspicion of spreading
child pornography over the Internet, police said.