(Montreal) A vast operation to fight against child pornography carried out in several regions of Quebec led this week to the arrest of 31 people, who have already appeared before a court in the courthouse of their jurisdiction.
A deployment of 275 police officers made it possible to arrest the suspects aged 37 to 79 from Monday to Thursday and to carry out several searches which led to the seizure of computer equipment for analysis.
The offenses charged are numerous; these are primarily luring, conspiring and arranging to commit a sexual offense against a child, making sexually explicit material available to a child, sexual interference, incitement sexual interference, sexual assault and accessing, possessing, distributing and producing child pornography.
The investigations initiated last fall and the arrests were the work of the Integrated Team to Fight Child Pornography, made up of police officers from the Sûreté du Québec (SQ) and several municipal police forces from many regions of Quebec. .
Lieutenant Marc-Antoine Vachon, head of the Integrated Team to Combat Child Pornography, points out that it is thanks to the rigorous and relentless work of all the police officers and prosecutors involved that such results are possible.