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Half of Czechs expect life to be better in their homeland - poll ... Czech police have managed to confirm more than 1000 connections from Czech computers to the German Internet portal with child porn they cannot prosecute the persons who visited the portal and unloaded material from it, he said. The possession of child porn was not punishable in the Czech Republic at the time when they did so, Gruber said. The server with child porno was established in Konstanz.
German police informed their Czech colleagues about it in 2006 pointing out that there were Czechs among its users. The information crime department at the Czech police headquarters then established 1089 connections with the server from the Czech Republic. However, it failed to prove that the Czechs who unloaded child porn from it in the summer 2006 distributed it further. The possession of child porn was not then punishable while only its production and distribution were considered a crime, Gruber said. Czech police thus cannot prosecute these people, he said. "This case was one of many due to which the police were pushing for the legislation making the child porno possession a crime," Gruber said. Members of the Chamber of Deputies adopted a similar position when they overrode senators and passed an amendment to the Penal Code under which the possession of child porn has been punishable as of December 1, 2007. In Germany alone, 987 suspects are being prosecuted, but most of the suspects are from abroad. There are 65 Poles, 38 Australians, 53 Turks and 80 Austrians among them. According to the Bavarian police, users from 98 countries have visited the server. They were people from all social stratas and age groups. An Italian website dealing with protection of children and young people was the first to alert the police about the porn portal. The German police found over 1800 video recordings and 45,000 images in the computers of the suspects. They say they were on the paedophiles' track since 2006.
(Ceske Noviny)
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