Swiss police use paedophile profile to snare 2,200 people online


Police tracked down the person hiding behind the pseudonym – a 62-year-old German man – who was convicted in 2015. But once he had been caught, investigators continued to use his profile to unmask other paedophiles and users of illegal child sex images. — Image by Freepik

GENEVA: Swiss police said May 30 that a secret operation using the profile of a convicted paedophile had allowed them to identify over 2,200 child sex offenders and users of child pornography worldwide.

The revelations made over the course of several years through the operation, dubbed Ninja Turtle, enabled arrests in Switzerland and several other countries, police in the northern Swiss canton of Aargau said in a statement.

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