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Europol Smashes Internet Child Porn Ring
AMSTERDAM
(Reuters) - Coordinated police raids across 10 countries including Britain
have smashed a number of Internet child pornography networks and several
people have been arrested, says European Union police agency Europol.
Police
seized computers, laptops, videos and other material containing images
of child abuse and an unspecified number of suspects were being investigated.
The
Hague-based Europol said in a statement that more than 40 locations were
searched in simultaneous raids, with the main focus of the operation led
by police in Wiesbaden in the central German state of Hesse.
The
other countries involved in what it called operation "Odysseus"
were Australia, Belgium, Canada, the Netherlands, Norway, Peru, Spain,
Sweden and Britain.
"Today's
operation has exposed a complex and organised hierarchical structure that
Internet networks of paedophiles and child molesters are using to protect
themselves by hiding their identities and their atrocious activities,"
Europol said.
Earlier
this month, German police detained about 50 suspects in a probe into a
suspected child pornography ring that also involved five other European
countries
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