European Police says Kidflix, “One of the largest pedophilic platforms in the world”, broken in the joint operation

German investigators said they were dismantled the main platform for the distribution of images of sexual abuse of children who had 1.8 million users around the world, in the international surgeries coordinated by the Europol Police Agency Europol.

Going to shutdown “Kidflix” Streaming Service was “one of the greatest strokes against children’s pornography in recent years, if not ever,” said Guido Limmer, Deputy Chief of the Bavarian Criminal Police.

The investigation was conducted by the German police and supported the authorities in 38 countries, including Australia, Canada and the United States, under the coordination of Europol.

It is in everything that “Kidflix” has hosted more than 91,000 videos with pictures of children’s sexual abuse, with a total area around 6,288 videos, according to the Bavarian police.

Authorities have managed to identify nearly 1,400 individual platform users, which hosted on the so-called Darknet or dark net.

Police in March, searches in locations in 31 countries in the “maximum surgery ever” organized by Europol, lists Limmer.

Joint searches of German and Dutch authorities resulted in the deprivation of a hard disk with about 72,000 videos of sexual abuse of children, he said.

In Germany, the police performed raids at 96 locations, targeting 103 individual suspects, the Bavaria police said.

The German authorities said they were working on identifying the children of victims of abuse, while the investigation was still ongoing.

Police arrested a 36-year-old man in the eastern German city of Chemnitz in January 2024. years that searches the abuse of pictures on “kidflix”.

The man also “offered his young son for the game,” Limmer said. The child was handed over to the child protection service.

Investigators could also identify “serial” abusers in the United States, Limmer said.

“Kidflix” was created in 2021. years “Cybercriminal that made a huge profit from it”, ” According to Europol“How fast it became one of the most popular platforms among pedophiles.”

About 3.5 new videos have been transferred to the site per hour before it was recorded, according to the International Police Agency.