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Law enforcement has shut down one of the world’s largest child sexual exploitation platforms. Kidflix. Leading by German and Dutch authorities, crackdowns spanned 36 countries, with 79 arrests and nearly 1,400 suspects identified, according to the aid organization. Europole.
1.8 million users of Kidflix: An unsettling catalog of child abuse
According to Europole, Kidflix Operating as a leading dark web platform, “providing criminals with a borderless platform for contacting victims and submitting grooms to create, store and exchange child sexual abuse.” Created in 2021, the site reportedly attracted over 1.8 million users worldwide by March 2025.
On March 11, German and Dutch police seized the central server. Reuters). A total of 91,000 unique videos have been uploaded and shared on the platform, according to the report.
“Unlike other known platforms of this kind, Kidflix has allowed users to not only download child sexual abuse material, but also stream video files.” Europole Confirmed. Users accessed the material via cryptocurrency-based tokens obtained by “uploading CSAM, verifying video titles and descriptions, and assigning categories.”
“Operation Stream”: The biggest operation in Europol’s history
It is explained Europole As “the greatest operation handled by experts to combat sexual exploitation of children,” Operation Stream It was run from 2022 to March 2025.
One cold case reported by subway “Providing a young son for the game,” cited 36-year-old man subway. German authorities intervened 96 times to protect children and successfully stopped the abuse in 12 ongoing cases.
The Real Victim of Kidflix
Europol’s executive director, Catherine De Bolle, highlighted the actual damages of online exploitation.
“Some people just try to frame this as a technical or cyber issue, but that’s not the case. There are real victims behind these crimes, and those victims are children.”
Magnus Brunner, EU Secretary of the Interior, added:
“Dismantling this criminal network illustrates the added value offered by EU institutions like Eupol.”
As subway The suspects ranged from people in their late teens to the 70s, with an average age of around 31 years. Many had a long history on the dark web. Most were repeatedly criminals.
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