ANDHE Balearic Islands Supreme Court of Justice (TSJB) has admitted to infiltration. National Police in an internet pedophilia network without a court order. investigations Allowed to arrest a young man in Palma Sentenced to six years in prison by the State Court with spreading pedophile material including rape and torture of infants. TSJB is revoking the sentence for distributing the footage, considering that the undercover police officer’s fundamental rights were violated because he agreed to form a “closed group” without judicial protection. The sentence says “There are no shortcuts in the rule of law”. The courtroom only approves court-authorized house searches, and the charge of possession of child pornography is upheld as the defendant himself agreed to a seven-month prison sentence at trial. The magistrates therefore partially consider the submitted appeal. defense attorney Antoni Vicens.
The investigation began in 2016 by Central Technological Brigade of the National Police. Agents detected a link on the dark web – the TOR network – with instructions to access a pedophile file-sharing community via Telegram. After infiltrating this group, secret police managed to get invited to a Skype group chat where users send videos and photos to each other.
Thanks to this infiltration, Police officers were able to take steps to identify the accused through IP, the 27-year-old residing in the Son Gotleu neighborhood in Palma.. As detailed by the TSJB, “the action so far has been verified without judicial control” and Police subsequently went to an investigative court in Palma to confirm the same information, already authorized.
Investigators obtained permission to search the defendant’s home on 7 February 2017. They found several computing devices containing particularly heavy child pornography material. For example, there were videos and photos of two babies, several months old, who had been subjected to various forms of torture and sexual assault. The seized media also found evidence of files being exchanged with other users. Palma County Court declared him the author of a book. water seller corruption of minors, aggravated by the “brutality” of the material.
The TSJB has now also canceled all investigations conducted by the National Police without judicial control. Oda stresses that agents must have access to a “closed messaging group” and that the police officer used a fake ID to get invited into that community. The court says that “this access to closed group communication requires judicial authorization”, which in this case did not exist.
don’t blame yourself
Although the judges are about “to investigate crimes that are loathsome to all As there is no shortcut in the rule of law, measures such as judicial control should be respected to prevent police misconduct or deviations”.
Although the courtroom declared these actions invalid by the police, the young man He himself admitted during the trial that he had access to and possessed a large amount of pedophile material.. Instead, he denied sending these images to anyone else.
Therefore, in the new sentence, the TSJB declares him as the author of the offense of possession of child pornography, alleviating unnecessary delays, and sentenced to seven months in prison. The decision can be appealed to the Supreme Court.