From Europol to the East Flanders public prosecutor’s office: this is how the police discovered Master Thijs’ child abuse | Domestic

The fact that Master Thijs (38) from Geraardsbergen was arrested for sexual offenses was only possible because researchers from all over Europe pored over millions of images of child abuse for years. But how exactly does the police do that, track down a perpetrator based on one photo or a few seconds of video? And how can even you make a breakthrough in a very simple way and thus save children? “Even a packet of cheese on the counter can teach us a lot.”