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51 arrested and 20 more charged with child pornography and corruption of minors offences across Spain
By h.b.
Jan 25, 2008 - 8:56 PM

The Spanish Civil Guard arrested a total of 51 people and charged a further 20 on Friday in 27 provinces across the country in a swoop against child pornography and the corruption of minors on the internet. Eight of the arrests took place in Madrid, eight more in Barcelona, six in Valencia, four in Alicante, three in Tarragona and Málaga and two in Baleares, Granada, Guipúzcoa and Sevilla among other provinces.

The case came about after a resident of Córdoba came across some of the material and informed the authorities in March last year.
Twenty of those arrested have been charged with the crimes of corruption of minors and of possession of child pornography.

Some 200 civil guards took part in simultaneous searches in 73 homes in 28 provinces, and several computers, drives, hard discs, DVD’s and CD’s removed. The total number of images recovered in the operation, code named ‘Fabiola’ is thought to be more than a million.

It follows the arrest in Vitoria on Thursday of another three people who face charges of distributing child pornography in a file share program on the net.