Child pornography, seven arrests in Lombardy, Veneto and Tuscany

As part of the activities to combat the sexual exploitation of minors online, the State Police concluded an operation which led to the flagrant arrest of seven people for possession of child pornography material and the reporting of another seven from whom substantial IT material used for illicit activities was seized.

The investigation, directed by the Public Prosecutor's Office at the Court of Milan and conducted by the Milan Operations Center for Cyber ​​Security with the operational coordination of the National Center for Combating Online Child Pornography (Cncpo) of the Postal Police and Cyber ​​Security Service, was launched, starting from the year 2025, as part of international police cooperation.

The investigative activity made it possible to continuously explore and monitor, at a transnational level, the online distribution channels of illicit material, allowing the identification of some accounts through which child pornography videos and images had been shared and downloaded.

As a result of the searches, the arrested people - two in the province of Milan, two in the province of Bergamo, one in the province of Varese, one in the province of Vicenza and one in the Tuscan capital, aged between 38 and 78 years - were found in possession of a large quantity of child exploitation material.

Over 100,000 files, including images and videos, and around thirty devices (smartphones, tablets, PCs, hard disks) were seized for a total of over 26,000 GB of IT material.

The operation, in whose execution over 60 postal police operators participated, belonging to the operational centers and the operational sections of Milan, Bergamo, Brescia, Varese, Mantua, Pavia, Como, Vercelli, Verona, Ascoli Piceno, Vicenza and Florence.