There are nine arrests by the police during a vast operation called “Taboo” throughout the national territory to combat online child pornography, coordinated by the District Prosecutor’s Office of Catania. The investigation, conducted by the cyber security operations center of the Catania postal police, made it possible to investigate 26 people throughout Italy for possession and dissemination of child pornography material, subjected to personal and computer searches. A man arrested in Catania.
The investigations, coordinated by the national center for combating online child pornography of the postal police service, began with the computer analysis of some electronic devices seized from a suspect, arrested months ago for the same crime. Within a messaging platform, groups were found dedicated to exchanging gruesome images and videos, with abuse even of very young children.
Meticulous and complex investigations, even of an extremely technical nature, led to the identification of the subjects active in the groups, against whom the Prosecutor’s Office issued personal and computer search orders. A search in Catania. In the rest of Italy: Rome (3), Milan (3), Brescia (2), Varese (1), Bergamo (1), Catanzaro (1), Bari (2), Foggia (1), Turin (2) , Cuneo (1), Genoa (2), Imperia (1), Avellino (1), Livorno (1), Prato (1), Ravenna (1), Ascoli piceno (1). Those arrested reside in the provinces of Catania (1), Rome (1), Milan (2), Florence (1), Bergamo (1), Ravenna (1), Varese (1) and Imperia (1).
One of them, in addition to thousands of child pornography files, had in his cloud the digital format of the book “Guia del pedofilo (pedophile’s guide). The material found and seized during the searches is being examined by the investigating magistrates and the postal police for further investigative insights also useful for the identification of the young victims.
