National Police agents have arrested 40 people in 23 Spanish provinces for possession, production and distribution of child pornography. Among those arrested is a man who produced pedophile material who used minor victims from his family environment to create photos and videos with sexual content.
Three of the detained people are minors and there are also 13 people under investigation who have not been arrested. More than 200 agents from all over Spain have participated in the operation and more than 60 registrations have been carried out in 32 different provinces. As a result of the searches, the agents have seized 58 mobile phones, 19 computers, 37 hard drives and USBs, 6 tablets, and numerous storage devices.
Among those arrested is a man, producer of illicit material, who used minor victims from his family environment – five of whom have been identified – to create photos and videos of child sexual content. Another of the arrested people is a 20-year-old woman, who was found to have numerous pedophile content on her mobile phone, specifically in an instant messaging application. They have also arrested a man who had been sentenced in 2023 to prison for a crime against the sexual freedom and indemnity of a minor under 16 years of age. In the search of his home, the agents found thousands of files of child sexual material.
The arrests have been made in the provinces of Barcelona (5), Lleida (2), Tarragona (1), Cantabria (1), Balearic Islands (3), Cádiz (2), Jaén (1), Málaga (2), Granada (2), Seville (2), Las Palmas (1), Santa Cruz de Tenerife (1), Ciudad Real (1), Madrid (5), Álava (1), Vizcaya (1), Valencia (3), Toledo (1), Ceuta (1), A Coruña (1), Navarra (1), Zamora (1) and Alicante (1).
On the other hand, the investigation remains open while waiting to locate and arrest three other people who are abroad, for which international police cooperation mechanisms have been initiated through EUROPOL and INTERPOL.
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