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Three bombings in the province of Bari to thwart a traffic of pedopornographic images disseminated through WhatsApp and Telegram chats. A postal police operation that is part of a national investigation and that in Puglia also saw a check in the Tarantino: 5 smartphones used by the suspects were seized, all unemployed between the ages of 18 and 50. informed the judicial authority. Inside his mobile phone, the child pornography material that would have been disseminated through the network, currently seized to make it available to investigators.
Searches and arrests throughout Italy
As anticipated, the controls in Puglia are part of the highest network of blitzes that in the morning saw more than 300 men of the postal police compromised, with searches and arrests in the criminal act in 53 different provinces and 18 regions. The most important police operation in recent years against online child pornography, which ends after two years of ‘covert’ investigations carried out on the Internet by the Milan Postal Police and by the CNCPO – National Center for the Contrast of Online Child Pornography of the Postal Police. of Rome, coordinated by Deputy Prosecutors Fusco and Mannella together with Deputies Barilli and Tarzia from the Milan District Attorney’s Office. A total of 432 users were identified who, taking advantage of the potential of the widespread applications of WhatsApp and Telegram, participated in “channels” and “groups” destined to share photos and videos of child pornography that show real sexual violence against minors; the abuses, in particular, affected mainly girls and boys and, in some cases, even babies.
Of the 159 groups identified by the Postal Police investigators, 16 were real criminal associations, within which promoters, organizers and participants could be distinguished, with well-defined roles and tasks. Each group was governed by strict and precise rules of conduct aimed at preserving the anonymity – and therefore “safety” – of the criminal association, as well as of the individual participants. The violation of these rules implied, in fact, the expulsion by the administrators. The long and widespread investigation has made it possible to name the nicknames used in the network by pedophiles, bringing them to light and out of the anonymity of the network. There are 81 Italians identified by the Milan Postal Police, two of whom, a 71-year-old optician with Neapolitan university collaborations and an unemployed 20-year-old Venetian, were promoting and managing child pornography groups, organizing their activities and recruiting new associates from all the territory. world.
Transnationality is a trait that unites all the groups discovered by the infiltrated agents. In fact, 351 foreign users are involved in the survey, for each of which all useful computer traces have been collected for identification. These elements, shared through the Police Service of Posts and Communications with international police cooperation agencies, allowed their arrest both in Europe and in the rest of the world. The activity carried out highlighted how the criminal phenomenon in question is absolutely transversal, since among the suspects there are people of very heterogeneous social backgrounds and ages, such as established professionals, workers, students, retirees, private and public employees, of which one is a vigilant traffic and several unemployed, aged between 18 and 71 years.
The kidnappings
The personal, local and computer system searches carried out by the Milan District Prosecutor’s Office led to the seizure of mobile phones, tablets, hard drives, pen drives, computers and email accounts and social profiles. During the raids, the stories used by the suspects to request child pornography material and a large amount of illicit material stored in the computer media were also found.
