Overview

• The 50-year-old suspect was charged on June 23 with conspiracy to commit a crime, instigation of a sexual offense on a minor, and creation and distribution of child pornography and remains in pretrial detention.
• An Ofmin undercover agent infiltrated darkweb pedocriminal forums where the suspect shared photos of the girl and solicited collaborators for the planned abduction, rape, and murder.
• BRI officers seized more than 100,000 illicit images, 2,000 videos, medications, and a rope at his home, including AI-generated depictions of the intended victim.
• The man lived a few hundred meters from the child’s home, was known to her family, and held a prior conviction for possessing child pornography.
• This case underscores France’s enhanced law enforcement campaign that pairs darkweb infiltration with cross-border cooperation to disrupt evolving pedocriminal networks.