the mayor of Côte-d’Or, summoned before the Dijon criminal court in April, is placed under judicial control
Following the vast dragnet, Monday and Tuesday, of 48 people who were arrestedincluding a mayor of Côte-d’Or, for downloading and viewing child pornography images and videos “massively and compulsively”led by the judicial police in France, the public prosecutor of Dijon Olivier Caracotch indicated, this Thursday in a press release, “that at the end of his police custody, the person was the subject of a summons before the Dijon criminal court for the hearing of April 26, 2023”.
This person, mayor of a town of around 800 people, was placed “under judicial control until the date of the hearing” at the request of the prosecution.
And to recall: “The watch carried out by the central office for the repression of violence to people from the central direction of the judicial police on the sharing networks in equalshas made it possible to identify, thanks to the tracing of their IP address, several dozen Internet users, potential perpetrators of acts of consultation, possession, acquisition and provision of child pornography images, one of whom is domiciled in Côte Golden “.
And to continue: “The territorial direction of the judicial police of Dijon was seized of an investigation under the direction of the parquet floor of Dijon for the facts concerning him”.
“The exploitation of the equipment of the computer person in question, revealed image and video files featuring minors aged 5 to 15, in suggestive poses, or having sexual relations with each other or with adults”, explains the public prosecutor in his press release.
The questioning, was “presented to the prosecution this morning (Thursday, editor’s note), he incurs maximum penalties of 7 years’ imprisonment and 100,000 euros for the dissemination of the image of a minor presenting a pornographic character by using an electronic communication network, possession and acquisition of the image of a minor representing a pornographic character”.