Almost 80 people were arrested (two of them in Portugal) as part of an international operation that dismantled an online children’s porn platform and had over 1.8 million users worldwide.
This international network was dismantled with two million people on Tuesday, in the one that was “The biggest operation ever” against child pornographysince the creation of the European Police Agency (Europol)
The “Operation Stream” that led to dismantling of “Kidflix”whose servers were closed, involved Search in 35 countries.
According to,, 79 people were detained In the operation, which began in 2022, on suspicion of having seen or discharged videos, but also of sexual abuse of minors.
More than 70,000 videos were taken from the platform in early March, but authorities seized more than 91,000, identifying More than 1,400 suspects worldwide.
Kidflix was created in 2021 and, PJ said, “it quickly became one of the most popular platforms of this type of content,” recording the adhesion of about 1.8 million users between April 2022 and March 2025.
According to Europol, this platform was one of the most used among pedophiles and allowed users to discharge or watch videos upon payment of a fee, resembling a streaming.
Two detainees in Portugal
On the sidelines of this mega operation, the Judicial Police (PJ) Disting two suspects in the act, and one of them was in pre -trial detention.
The operation was coordinated by the PJ’s National Cybercrime and Technological Crime (UNC3T) unit, which detained, “in the act, two citizens of 28 and 35 yearsit seems no criminal record”.
“During the various steps, it was possible to collect relevant evidence, namely computer equipment abuse content and sexual exploitation of children. After presence to the judicial authorities one of the suspects was in custody, ”the PJ said in a statement.
According to the PJ, 91,000 videos were shared, “compatible with abuse and sexual exploitation of children, corresponding to about 6,288 hours of reproduction”.
At the international level, the ‘Stream’ operation was led by the Bavaria State Criminal Police and the Central Office for the Bavaria Cybercrime (ZCB), having counted on the participation of counterparts from 35 countries.
39 rescued children
The ‘Stream’ operation took place between March 10 and 23 and identified 1,393 suspects. They were “Rescued from the situation of abuse and sexual exploitation 39 children”more than three thousand electronic devices have also been seized.
Later this year, Europol has conducted another investigation that led to the arrest of at least 25 people by distributing through the Internet content of child pornography generated by Artificial Intelligence (AI).
On February 28, the European Agency revealed that this operation “was one of the first cases that involved child pornography content generated by artificial intelligence, which makes the researchers’ task particularly difficult due to the lack of legislation regarding these crimes.”
Like this latest operation, this investigation in February also involved an effort by police forces from 18 countries.
Under pressure to combat organized crime, the European Commission proposed on Tuesday the reinforcement of the Europol Police Coordination Agencyduplicating your people.
With more than 1,400 employees, Europol is an agency known for its action against organized crime, cybercriminality and terrorism.
In recent years, it has participated in dismantling operations of media and computer -pirates traffickers networks.
However, the European executive wants to reinforce his role to make it a truly operational police agency.
The Commission also intends a Action Plan to protect children and combat pedophilia as well as a strategy to better combat firearms and laundering capital.
Its proposal will be submitted to the approval of the European Parliament and the Member States.
