Europol give a press conference in The Hague to announce the dismantling of a worldwide child sex offender’s network.
The case, named ‘Operation Koala’, began in 2006 when a child abuse video was discovered in Australia. This particular video had been produced in Belgium. A Belgian perpetrator and two victims were identified.
Consequently, the sole producer of the material, a 42-year-old Italian national, was arrested. He was running a website on which he sold over 150 self-made, sexually explicit videos of underage girls. This business had been running for a year and a half, generating considerable profits from around 2500 customers worldwide.
The information from Australia was routed via Interpol to Belgium and Europol. The keys to the success of this operation are the provision of valuable data by European member states and Interpol and crime analysis for more than a year carried out by specialists in dealing with online child sex abuse cases at Europol and the judicial co-ordination carried out by Eurojust.
Tagesschau, the news program from the German public TV broadcaster ARD covers the story and needs footage from the Europol press conference.
For this production Featurez did the research, set-up and planning of the filming, booked a camera crew and accompanied the satellite transfer of the video material.