There were 79 arrests, 39 minors were saved, about 1,400 identified suspects and three thousand seized electronic devices. This is the balance of the operation “Stream” for the dismantling of Kidflix, one of the largest platforms Children’s pornography Online, often visited by 1.8 million users from 2022 to 2025.
Kidflix, streaming platform of children’s porn
Investigators of the Bavarian Criminal Police and the State Central Service for Combating Cybercrifts headed an investigation in which 35 countries around the world participated, in accordance with the coordination of the European Union for Cooperation of the Police (Europol).
Created in 2021 by cybercrime, Kidflix contained about 91,000 videos for children’s abuseThis can be seen by payment in cryptocurrency. On average, about 3.5 new videos per hour were charged, many of them are unknown to the police authorities before the investigation.
Unlike many sites of this type, the platform in question also allowed users to transmit abuse, as well as contact And attract the victimsRefers to the statement of Europol.
To date, the operation is the largest in history, when the liba carried out by the agency in the fight against the sexual exploitation of children. Most identified criminals are repeated and already known to the authorities.
Detention against the sexual exploitation of children also in Italy
In Italy, the police detained four men aged 22 to 49 years to store children’s pornography. Another 15 people are investigated.
According to the police, Agents have discovered the existence of an obscure Internet page called “Vikipedo“Link to the well -known“ Wikipedia ”, used as an encyclopedia dedicated to the world of pedophilia, with guidelines according to the instructions for the pedophile.
In Portugal, two suspects were arrested in relation to abuse for abuse of minors
In Portugal, after searching at home, two suspects were arrested in this act, one of the nationality of the Portuguese language and another foreigner, it seems, without criminal record, ”said the judicial police (PJ) in communicationBeing one of the suspects of preliminary detention.
The operation in the Portuguese territory was coordinated by the national unit for the fight against computer and technological crimes (UNC3T) PJ, which claims to collect “Corresponding evidence”, such as “computer material with the content of abuse and sexual operation of children”.
According to PJ, out of 39 minors, not one of them is Portuguese, which will now make an exhaustive analysis to check if the Portuguese children appear in the contents that was seized in accordance with this operation.
Sexual exploitation of children, one of the main threats to the internal security of the EU
“The digital measurement increased the rapid development of the sexual operation of children on the Internet, offering criminals a platform without borders for contact and victims will suffer, as well as create, store and exchange materials of abuse Sexy children, ”said the Executive Director of Europal Katherine de Bolle.
“Some people are trying to create this problem as a purely technical or computer problem, but this is not so. There are real sacrifices behind these crimes, and these victims are children. As a society, we must act to protect our children, ”said Katherine from Bolla.
According to 2025, evaluating a criminal assessment of crime of threats of severe organized crime, sexual operation of children is one of the biggest threats to internal security in the European Union (EU).