A 31-year-old man has been charged and placed in pretrial detention in Paris, suspected of having run a major child pornography platform accessible on the dark web for nearly two years. Arrested in Toulouse, he is accused of having managed the site, named "Alice in Wonderland," between 2022 and its closure by authorities in September 2024.
According to the Paris prosecutor's office, the suspect is accused of managing users, maintaining the website, and organizing various sections of the platform, which facilitated the exchange and distribution of child pornography. He has been formally charged with several offenses, including providing a platform for organized illegal transactions, and possessing and distributing child pornography.
An international investigation against a vast network
The investigation was opened in June 2024 by the cybercrime unit and entrusted to the Office for Minors. The "Alice in Wonderland" platform had hundreds of thousands of users and allowed not only the distribution of child pornography but also the connection of individuals likely to commit sexual violence against children.
Before its closure by German authorities in September 2024, several platform executives had already been convicted in Germany. Last November, five operators aged 44 to 63 were sentenced to prison terms of up to ten and a half years by a court in Mönchengladbach. The French investigation is part of this international cooperation aimed at dismantling child pornography networks operating on the dark web.
