Spanish police arrest 66 on child porn charges

MADRID, July 15 (Reuters) Spanish police have seized 48 million images and videos and arrested 66 people in a child pornography investigation, police said today.

Acting alongside Interpol, police tracked 5,000 downloads of pornographic material from archives located on servers in Germany.

The investigation, which started in September, found 85 computer users downloading the images leading to 66 arrests in different regions of Spain. Those arrested include architects, psychologists, doctors, lawyers and child sport coaches.

"One of the arrested had the largest amount of child pornography found until now by the national police on one person saved on 21 hard discs," the police said in a statement.

Police are investigating whether any of those detained are guilty of abusing children as well as downloading images of child pornography.

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