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Police in
22 European countries have arrested 112 suspects in an online child pornography
investigation, Europe's police agency, Europol, says.
The
suspects allegedly shared videos of children and babies being sexually abused
and raped, Europol director Rob Wainwright said.
Nineteen
men face charges in Denmark, where police seized dozens of computers and
thousands of hours of video images.
Denmark's
chief of police said it was a huge amount of evidence to examine.
The
investigation, named Operation Icarus, was ongoing and more arrests were
expected, said Mr Wainwright.
"So
far, in 22 countries we have identified 269 suspects with 112 arrests," he
said.
"The
operation targeted those sharing the most extreme forms of video material,
which included babies and toddlers being sexually abused and raped," he
told a news conference at Europol's headquarters in The Hague.
He said the
evidence seized in house searches was being examined to support further
investigations and possible prosecutions.
One of the
suspects arrested for downloading illegal material was believed to be grooming
a young child, but had not yet met the child face to face, Europol said in a
statement.
Danish
chief of police Jens Henrik Hoejbjerg said 59 computers and 2,430 storage
devices had been seized, containing the equivalent of 9,000 hours of video images,
the Associated Press news agency said.
The Danish
suspects are aged 24-55, AP added.
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