Nine people were arrested in flagrante delicto by the State Police – one also in the Bergamo area – as part of a vast operation throughout the national territory to combat online child pornography, coordinated by the District Attorney’s Office of Catania.
The investigation, conducted by the Operational Center for Cyber Security of the Postal Police of Catania, made it possible to investigate 26 people in various regions for possession and dissemination of child pornography, subjected to personal and computer searches.
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 – had been 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.
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 the digital format of the book “Pedophile’s Guide” in his cloud.
