A 65-year-old man has been arrested in Palma as the alleged perpetrator of a crime of possession of audiovisual material with pedophile content, after downloading up to 2.2 million files of child pornography via the Internet. The author has been arrested as a result of the investigation being carried out by the Technological Crimes, Cybercrime and Economic Crime group of the National Police in Palma against the possession and distribution of child sexual exploitation material over the Internet, the police force has detailed. in a note.
After analyzing the information collected after the 'cyber patrolling' on the networks, the investigators located the now detained man in the Balearic capital, due to the downloading and distribution of numerous files with pedophile content. The agents confirmed that there were several connections in which some 15,000 pedophile files were monitored at least from last July until the beginning of 2024. A court in Palma authorized the entry and search of the home where the defendant was found with his elderly mother. advanced.
In the home, investigators found on the man's laptop a program for downloading and distributing pedophile material, as well as an external hard drive that stored approximately 2.2 million child pornographic photographs and videos.
During the search, the 65-year-old man acknowledged the facts and collaborated with the agents, to whom he stated that he thought that the consumption of this type of pornography was not a crime. The man was brought to justice in Palma for an alleged crime of corruption of minors for the possession and distribution of child pornography.
