Overview
- Investigators say partial forensics found several thousand files of child sexual content on seized devices from the 64-year-old suspect.
- He was arrested on 24 November, formally placed under investigation on 26 November, and remanded to pretrial detention after seeing a judge.
- Charges include importation, possession and dissemination of child sexual images, along with distributing AI-generated sexual content without consent.
- The Unité nationale cyber traced the sharing of files by IP to a Pauillac photography studio after an international cooperation signal reached Bordeaux prosecutors.
- A 28-year-old colleague was interviewed and released, a judicial inquiry is underway, and the studio has since closed following the searches and publicity.