Spanish Police Bust Major Child Exploitation Ring Targeting Moroccan and Spanish Minors

According to the Spanish authorities, this is the largest pedophilia network in the kingdom. Indeed, according to the Spanish media El Periodico, this network, which has filmed and sold several thousand films, exploits hundreds of Spanish and Moroccan minors whose age does not exceed 13 years. This network was exposed following the testimonies of two mothers.

After conducting their investigations, the Mossos d’Esquadra, supported by the General Directorate of Childhood and Adolescence (DGAIA), searched the house where this crime against childhood was taking place. This is how they discovered "a mountain of pornographic films". On the spot, two French citizens and a young Moroccan were taken away by the Mossos.

In reality, continues the same source, for having produced dozens of gay pornos in the early 2000s, these two Frenchmen are well known in the pornography industry. Once settled in Spain, they set their sights on a very specific segment of the population: street children, immigrants or from underprivileged backgrounds. These fragile beings are drugged, mistreated and filmed, for a meager remuneration ranging from 10 to 20 euros, specifies the same media.

In 2015 already, a raid by the Mossos at the base of the network in Tortosa had allowed the seizure of more than 1,500 DVDs, 12 hard drives and more than a million photographs ready to be sold, recalls the Spanish media. With Spain as a rear base, the two French pedophiles traveled to several other countries to shoot films, including Morocco, Kenya, Sri Lanka, Laos, the Czech Republic, Turkey, and Tunisia.

According to Interpol, some 103 victims who suffered the horrors of this network between 2002 and 2015 were able to be found, while several hundred other victims could not be located, such as those in Morocco. As for the two French masterminds of the network, which consisted of seven people in total, after spending a few years in pre-trial detention, they fled and are being sought by Interpol. The justice system has requested a sentence of 3,000 years against all the accused, including the Moroccan Youness en Naciri.