{"id":13651,"date":"2025-05-22T19:01:10","date_gmt":"2025-05-22T19:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/22\/55-men-arrested-in-france-in-major-operation-to-bust-online-pedophile-ring\/"},"modified":"2025-05-22T19:01:10","modified_gmt":"2025-05-22T19:01:10","slug":"55-men-arrested-in-france-in-major-operation-to-bust-online-pedophile-ring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/22\/55-men-arrested-in-france-in-major-operation-to-bust-online-pedophile-ring\/","title":{"rendered":"55 men arrested in France in major operation to bust online pedophile ring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\">            Fifty-five men from across France were arrested between Monday and Thursday morning as part of a large-scale operation to dismantle a pedophile network operating through the messaging service Telegram, according to France\u2019s Office for the Protection of Minors.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\">            \u201cThese 55 individuals all exchanged CSAM imagery (Child Sexual Abuse Material) with the dangerous pedophile, so we had digital evidence implicating all of them,\u201d said Bevan.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\">            Bevan said that the arrests are \u201cthe fruit of a ten-month long investigation.\u201d    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\">            \u201cIt was a major investigation and infiltration operation on this Telegram group,\u201d Bevan said. \u201cWe had to follow the exchanges, analyze them, and identify the individuals hiding behind these Telegram pseudonyms \u2014 especially those who had children, had criminal records, or worked in sensitive professions involving contact with children.\u201d    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\">            Bevan said the men are from all ages and backgrounds: fathers, civil servants, military personnel, and paramedics.In France, the possession and distribution of child sexual abuse material is punishable by a five-year prison sentence and a \u20ac100,000 ($112,747) fine.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\">            French authorities indicted Durov on August 28, 2024 on several charges, including money laundering and spreading child sex abuse material. Durov said in a statement soon afterwards that he was committed to improving his app\u2019s moderation and that authorities were trying to hold him \u201cpersonally responsible for other people\u2019s illegal use of Telegram.\u201d    <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<div>This post appeared first on cnn.com<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fifty-five men from across France were arrested between Monday and Thursday morning as part of a large-scale operation to dismantle a pedophile network operating through the messaging service Telegram, according to France\u2019s Office for the Protection of Minors. \u201cThese 55 individuals all exchanged CSAM imagery (Child Sexual Abuse Material) with the dangerous pedophile, so we [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":13652,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13651\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}