CNN
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Fifty-five men from across France were arrested between Monday and Thursday morning as part of a large-scale operation to dismantle a pedophile network operating through the messaging service Telegram, according to France’s Office for the Protection of Minors.
The suspects, aged between 25 and 75, are accused of exchanging messages on Telegram with an “extremely dangerous” child sex offender who was incarcerated in the summer of 2024, and whose own children were rescued after being abused, Quentin Bevan, head of the OFMIN’s operational unit told CNN on Thursday.
“These 55 individuals all exchanged CSAM imagery (Child Sexual Abuse Material) with…
