Overview
- The man, born in 1994, was arrested in Toulouse, brought to Paris, formally charged and placed in pre‑trial detention on March 13.
- He faces counts of providing an online platform to enable illicit transactions in an organized group, along with possession and distribution of child sexual abuse images.
- French authorities opened the case in June 2024 through the cybercrime section, with investigations entrusted to the minors’ office.
- German investigators shut the platform in September 2024; a court in Mönchengladbach convicted five operators in November with sentences up to about ten and a half years.
- The site, known as 'Alice in Wonderland,' reportedly had hundreds of thousands of users, disseminated material including images of infants, and enabled contacts that could facilitate sexual violence against children.