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Vienna police raid more than 100 houses in child porn sweep Federal agents said Monday they raided more than 100 homes over the weekend, indicting 35 suspects and seizing thousands of CDs, DVDs and videocassettes in a major crackdown on child pornography. Authorities said the sweep, dubbed ``Operation Xenia,'' was part of an international effort to purge the Austrian capital of child porn. They described it as one of the largest such operations in the nation's history. Ludwig Mendel, an official with the Federal Criminal Investigations Office who helped oversee the raids, told reporters that 35 people had been indicted on federal child pornography charges. They included at least one city official as well as several retirees, Mendel said. He said officers seized 2,700 CDs and DVDs, another 2,700 videocassettes and numerous computer discs containing images of underaged children in sexual situations. The material was confiscated in separate raids on about 120 addresses registered to 96 individuals, officials said. They said authorities with the US Treasury and Department of Homeland Security assisted in the operation, but did not elaborate. Investigators were still evaluating the material and were working to determine whether any of the suspects also was involved in producing the porn, Mendel said. In 2002, authorities launched ``Operation Landslide,'' a massive crackdown on child porn that led to the arrests of about 300 suspects. |
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