The National Police has arrested 27 people for possession, production and distribution of pornographychildren’samong them a dangerous sexual predator who would have committed more than 100 crimes of ‘grooming’ (sexual blackmail over the Internet) from his home in the Madrid town of Fuenlabrada.
have been practiced 26 home searches, in different locations in the country, in which 57 hard drives, 15 computers, 16 ‘pendrives’, three tablets, four mobile phones and a large number of storage media containing thousands of files of child pornographic content have been seized.
Agents from the Central Cybercrime Unit and 14 territorial units have participated in the operation, which began at the beginning of 2020, and have been investigating since then to achieve full identification of some of the users, due to the concealment techniques of identity used by the detainees, the police have reported.
One of the detainees, who was acting from his home in Fuenlabradait was a dangerous sexual predator of minors who carried out his activity on one of the social networks most used by young people.
To do this, he would have created various fake accounts in which he posed as an attractive young woman from which a large collection of images of a sexual nature had been made and which he used as bait to start conversations with young men on the Internet.