German investigators announced on Wednesday that they were dismantling the main platform for distribution of paintings of sexual abuse of children that had 1.8 million users around the world, in an international operation coordinated by Pane -European Police Agency Europol.

The Kidflix Streaming Stroke move was “one of the biggest blows against children’s pornography in recent years, if not never,” said Guido Limmer, Deputy Chief of Bavarian Criminal Police.

The investigation was conducted by the German police and the authorities supported in 38 countries, including Australia, Canada and the US, under the coordination of Europol.

All in all, it is said that “Kidflix” hosted more than 91,000 videos with pictures of sexual abuse of children, a total of about 6,288 hours of videos, according to the Bavarian police forces.

Authorities have been able to identify nearly 1,400 individual platform users, which hosted the so-called Darknet or dark network.

In March, police performed searches at locations in 31 countries in the “largest surgery ever” organized by Europol, Limmer said.

The joint raid of German and Dutch authorities resulted in a deprivation of a hard drive with about 72,000 videos of sexual abuse of children, he said.

In Germany, police were attacking 96 locations, targeting 103 individual suspects, Bavarian police reported.

German authorities have announced that they worked to identify the children’s abuse victims while the investigation was still ongoing.

Police arrested a 36-year-old man in the East German city of Chenititz in January 2024 who sought images of abuse on “Kidflix”.

The man also “offered his young son for games,” Limmer said. The child is handed over to the Child Protection Service.

Investigators have also been able to identify the “serial” abuser in the United States, Limmer said.

“Kidflix” created “Cyber ​​-Christimal that brought a huge earnings” in 2021, According to Europol“How quickly he became one of the most popular platforms among pedophiles.”

About 3.5 new videos were transferred to a place for an hour before it was demolished, according to the International Police Agency.