Question 6091 — children

Summary

Ms. Sarah Tanzilli questions Mr. Keeper of the Seals, Minister of Justice, about the legal framework around citizen groups fighting against cyber-pedocrime. Team Moore, one of these citizen collectives created in April 2019, is working to track down child criminals on social networks. Sexual predators are lured with false profiles of children or adolescents in order to build a case before reporting it to the competent authorities. During investigations, several strict rules are respected to avoid procedural flaws and the inadmissibility of evidence: no legal provocation, no theft of a child's identity, no child pornography content must be shared or kept, no information about the child offender must be disclosed. This group claims 75 arrests and 36 convictions. This citizen “vigilantism” turns out to be a help valuable for the police services, even if it raises questions about possible abuses. Furthermore, according to the European Union, child pornography content has increased by 6,000% in 10 years, mainly among children between 7 and 10 years old. In 2019, France was the third country in the world to host this type of image, while in 2020 cyber violence against minors increased by almost 57% according to the association E-Childhood. However, in France, the Central Office for the Suppression of Violence against Persons only has 17 judicial police officers specialized in cyber-pedocrime investigation techniques. The creation by the Government of an office dedicated to violence against minors will significantly increase the means of action and investigation. However, she questions him about the action of these groups and the framework legal framework in which they operate, in order to fight cyber-pedocrime as effectively as possible.

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