The Central Office for Personal Repression of Violence has coordinated investigations for suspicion of detention or provision of child pornographic images on the Internet.
Le Monde
Fifty-two people were arrested this week during a vast net in the middle of pedocinality throughout the territory, announced at the France-Press agency (AFP) the central office of Repression of violence to the person (OCRC), Thursday, October 14th. All are suspected of having held or made available images or videos.
Auditions carried out in custody allowed, “at the margin” according to the OCCRV, to update potential for sexual assault and rape on minors, for which additional investigations are carried out by the prosecutors concerned . Among the people arrested between Tuesday and Thursday by the OCRPC, in collaboration with the territorial divisions of the judicial police and all over France, was a woman, but who was released after his custody.
These people are “independent of each other” and “their profile is varied, ranging from student to retiree”. The youngest is 22 years old. “Some are socially very inserted, others more marginalized,” said the same source at AFP. Among them, a school teacher and councilor in Bédarieux (Hérault) of 36, announced the Attorney of Beziers, Raphaël Balland, in a statement broadcast on Wednesday.
about sixty arrests in October 2020
“During his custody, after being forbidden, he ended up recognizing his sexual attraction with respect to boys aged 16 to 18 and downloaded on peer-to- networks Peer [which allow you to exchange files without going through a server] some pornographic images featuring minors but had immediately erased them, “he added.
“The first farms of several computer and telephone elements seized at his home allowed to confirm his sexual attraction towards young men and adolescents,” continued the prosecutor. The man was indicted for detention, offers, made available and imports of pornographic files featuring minors between October 2015 and October 2021, and placed in pre-trial detention.
The OCRCP says it targeted “consumers [of child pornographic images] at the level of download and trade of files consequently” and who live on “the whole territory” in order to “take a punch at the national level to this type of delinquency “. The Board had already conducted a vast fillet in the pedocinal environment in October 2020, during which sixty people had been arrested.
Since the summer of 2020, the consultation and downloading of pedopornographic images are subject to five years’ imprisonment, compared to two before, and the authors are automatically enrolled in the automated judicial file of the authors of sexual offenses.