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May 25, 2012
Dozens questioned in Nordic child porn raid
Published: 16 Jun 09 11:41 CET | Double click on a word to get a translation
Online: http://www.thelocal.se/20098/20090616/
Police in four Nordic countries carried out a join action on Tuesday morning to break up a suspected child pornography ring.
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“The raid has been under preparation during the entire spring in cooperation with our Nordic colleagues and eleven local Swedish police authorities. The preparations have worked very well and we’re going to continue with our Nordic cooperation,” said Stefan Kronqvist from the IT-crimes section of Sweden’s National Investigation Department (Rikskriminalpolisen), in a statement.
Around 20 of the suspects live in Sweden and are under investigation for downloading and uploading images featuring child pornography.
Rikskriminalpolisen spokesperson Varg Gyllander confirmed for the TT news agency that one person was currently being held in Sweden.
“But I can’t say any more because the operation is ongoing,” he said.
Police confiscated computers as a part of the raid, but will only know more about the number of images and film clips featuring child pornography once technicians have had a chance to examine the computers.
“We’ve been working in the same way we usually do when dealing with child pornography. What’s different is that this time we took action together with police from other Nordic countries,” said Gyllander.
The raid, known as Operation Viking, was a joint effort by police in the four Nordic countries and is surrounded in strict confidentiality to ensure the suspected paedophiles couldn’t destroy important evidence.
In addition to images of child pornography, police are also looking for Scandinavian children who have been subjected to sexual molestation.
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Least thats the logic of the cartels.
I hope these sick b@st@rds get some proper sentences instead of Swedish-slap-on-the-wrists community service and a few months. Personally would be happy if they lock them up and throw away the key because its _very_ unlikely these sickos will change even when they are released.
If law enforcement and ISPs cooperate it is next to impossible to be anonymous--in some cases it may be possible to encrypt connection contents but the connection endpoints are known. If a site containing illegal material or links to illegal material is made, it's logged and you are known.
Why are these sites allowed to stay online?
If nearly all of the available material can be eliminated, why isn't it?
When is the last time you heard/read about servers and webmasters being arrested?
I don't know the answers to these questions, but someone should be asking them. The appearance is that law enforcement is only wishing to appear as doing something. If so, why?
In these situations the culprit is never the police agencies--it's always much higher.
Regarding the raid. Well done to the police on that one.
I hope these people never see the light of day again.