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ER Editor: More information is here at the Europol site —
Global crackdown on Kidflix, a major child sexual exploitation platform with almost two million users
Canada’s CTV News also ran this story on a Saskatchewan man getting caught —
Sask. man charged after Europol takedown of Kidflix, a child porn streaming site
From the UK —
63 Brit predators handed to cops after sick dark web video site Kidflix shut down
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German investigators said on Wednesday that they had dismantled a major platform for the distribution of child sex abuse images with 1.8 million users worldwide in an international operation coordinated by Europol.
The move to shut down the “KidFlix” streaming service was “one of the biggest blows against child pornography in recent years, if not ever”, said Guido Limmer, deputy head of the Bavarian criminal police.
The investigation was led by German police and supported by authorities in 38 countries under the coordination of Europol.
In all, “KidFlix” is said to have hosted more than 91,000 videos with images of child sex abuse, totalling around 6,288 hours of film, according to Bavarian police.
Authorities were able to identify almost 1,400 individual users of the platform, which was hosted on the so-called darknet.
Police in March carried out searches at locations in 31 countries in the “largest operation ever” organised by Europol, according to Limmer.
A joint raid by German and Dutch authorities resulted in the seizure of a hard drive with around 72,000 videos of child sex abuse.
In Germany, police carried out raids at 96 locations, targeting 103 individual suspects, the Bavarian criminal police said.
German authorities said they had endeavoured to identify victims of child sex abuse while the investigation was still in progress.
Police arrested a 36-year-old man in the eastern German city of Chemnitz in January 2024 who had searched for abuse images on “KidFlix”.
(FRANCE 24 with AFP)
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