It was in 2016 that this case shook the whole of Spain. The police dismantled a vast network of child pornography and among its members, two French. This Thursday, October 6, France Blue Provence tells us that they have finally been condemned by the court of Tarragona, in Catalonia. The men, aged 67 and 77, recruited their victims in the street for remuneration ranging from 10 to 20 euros. One of them was considered by the court to be the “leader” of the network and was sentenced to 240 years in prison, the highest sentence in the country. While the other, his accomplice who is from Var, was sentenced to 19 years in prison.
The two men had at the time been placed in pre-trial detention for a few months, before being released by the Spanish courts. They then fled before their trial in Spain and were arrested on May 12, 2021 by police officers from the Sanary police station in Perpignan, before fleeing again before their trial. They were finally found thanks in particular to telephone tapping and had to explain themselves to the court on these thousands of child pornography films.
In France, it is Christian Quesada who was again imprisoned for non-respect of his parole. As a reminder, in 2019, the former champion of the show “Les 12 coups de midi” was arrested following the testimony of a young girl and indicted. He had been convicted and then imprisoned for corruption of minors and possession of child pornography. Before being released in the spring of 2021. On October 27 on C8, he will give his version of the facts on this case for the first time. According to the channel, the journalists collected “damning new testimonies and new elements that are hardly believable”.
Laura Bertrand
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