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The investigations, coordinated by the National Center for combating online child pornography (Cncpo) of the Postal Police service, began with a complex IT analysis activity on some electronic devices seized from a suspect, arrested months ago for the same conduct, on which – within a messaging platform – were found groups dedicated to the exchange of 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 Catania District Attorney’s Office issued personal and computer search orders.
The searches were carried out with the collaboration of the various operational centers for cyber security of the Postal Police in Catania (1), 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’ (‘The pedophile’s guide’).
The material found and seized during the searches is being examined by the Catania District Prosecutor’s Office and the Postal Police for further investigative investigations also useful for the identification of the young victims.
