Trespass business do the authorities in France for the dismantling of a crime network at the expense of children active through the application of telegram encrypted messages.
55 men in France have been arrested since Monday until today (22.05.2025) announced to AFP by the competent service for the Prosecution of crimes against minors ofmin after a ten -month investigation.
The defendants, aged 25 to 75, including a priest, a grandfather, a rescuer, “good family members”, a music teacher or bachelors, had talks on the Telegram and were connected with ‘extremely dangerous’ criminals With victims of children, who have been imprisoned in the summer, Inspector Cenen Bevan, head of the Operational Center ofmin, said on AFP.
Arrests were made in 42 geographical apartments, At least for possession, dissemination and usual visits to child pornography content involving children under ten years. The investigation into the case involves 42 prosecutors.
The trigger for this extensive business gave The arrest in the summer by the police officers of the criminals with victims of minors, who were abusing children and uploading their actions on the Telegram.
«It took ten months of research to get to dislocation » of this network “behind these proven criminals with victims of children. Ten months of penetration into thousands of talks, analysis and identification of images of children from a impact group formed in themin, “said Inspector Bevan.
55 men were arrested in France between Monday and Thursday morning as part of a vast operation to dismantle a pedocrime network officiating via the encrypted Telegram messaging, at the Office des Minors (OFMIN) told the end of ten months of investigation #AFP pic.twitter.com/QhkNVRNGFC
-Agency France-Presse (@Afpfr) May 22, 2025
As for him, ‘Telegram remains the platform that they prefer criminals with victims of children” Although he acknowledged that progress has been made in the platform’s collaboration with the researchers after arresting August in Burze by Pavel Douvr’s chief, Inspector Bevan believes that the Telegram is “hardly with the minimum of his legal obligations” in this area.