A man in his twenties who is part of a neo-Nazi cybercriminal group was charged on Wednesday, August 20, and imprisoned for
“possession of child pornography, acts of cruelty and abuse of weakness ,” the Evreux prosecutor’s office told AFP.
A judicial investigation opened
Contacted by an internet monitoring investigation service, the Evreux prosecutor Rémi Coutin declared that he had requested the opening of a judicial investigation for “possession, consultation and distribution of child pornography images in an organized gang, abuse, acts of cruelty towards animals, and abuse of the weakness of minors” , continued the AFP.
Around fifty young girls contacted
Arrested on Tuesday, August 19, this man is accused of having succeeded in convincing around fifty young girls to self-harm or self-mutilate at his request, said Rémi Coutin. He contacted them on websites for suicidal girls and “forced them via webcam to stab themselves in the thigh or breast, to carve his name on their arm or stomach,” the prosecutor explained on Friday, August 22.
Several thousand child pornography files were also found on his computer. Photos and videos described as “unbearable” by the prosecutor, including “rapes of babies,” of which “we do not know if he ordered any.” Rémi Coutin specified that this man is part of “an accelerationist and neo-Nazi satanist cybercriminal network called 764′ which was founded in January 2021 by an American ,” himself arrested by the FBI at the beginning of the year. This group targets vulnerable minors on the internet and forces them to self-mutilate or produce child pornography.
Man also beheaded animals
The suspect admitted to having decapitated several animals himself, including dogs and rabbits, photos of which were found on his computer. The investigation is being conducted by the Rouen judicial police and the central juvenile office of the National Directorate of Judicial Police located in Nanterre, the prosecutor’s office said. Unknown to the police, the man confessed while in custody to “urges to rape, torture, or murder . “
In June, a 20-year-old German-Iranian man belonging to the same “764” pedophile cybercrime network was arrested in Hamburg for encouraging a 13-year-old American boy to commit suicide live online. The network’s founder, Bradley Cadenhead, 20, has been serving an 80-year prison sentence in the United States since 2021 for creating child pornography and violent content.
