Via TMCnet
Greek police cracks child porn ring
Greek police have cracked a major child porn ring operating via the Internet, with 39 people charged in connection with the case, according to a police announcement on Wednesday.
Police said a joint investigation by the Athens and Thessaloniki electronic crime squads lasted more than three months. Those under arrest included 37 Greeks and two foreign nationals. All the accused were living and working in Athens, Thessaloniki and 10 other cities around Greece.
Of the 39 people charged, 20 were caught in the act of disseminating hard-core pornographic material from their computers during a coordinated operation carried out simultaneously in several cities at once.
The investigation was begun based on information supplied by German authorities, who had tracked the electronic traces of 170 Greek Internet users in one of their own investigations, during which they discovered the existence of a file sharing network used to disseminate child porn.
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Kudos to the policeman and policewoman for doing an outstanding job on this case. Bravo.
I hope they get the harshest possible sentence. It sickens me that there’s apparently a file-sharing program set-up specifically for distributing child pornography (it doesn’t surprise me, of course. Every source I’ve read on the topic points out how sophisticated they’ve gotten with their use of technology to carry out their crime).
And I don’t say this often about our police, but good for them for cracking down on this. It won’t make much a dent on the overall problem (in Greece alone, never mind globally in the Internet), but even one of those twisted individuals off the streets is a good thing.