In an international operation against child sexual exploitation, one of the world's largest paedophile platforms was shut down at the beginning of April 2025. Between April 2022 and March 2025, a total of 1.8 million users worldwide had logged on to the Kidflix platform, which contained around 91,000 videos uploaded and shared by users.

Through “Operation Stream”, largely supported by Europol and involving 35 countries, almost 1400 suspects were able to be identified worldwide. Of these, 79 have been arrested for sharing and distributing child sexual abuse material (CSAM).

Operation Stream is the largest operation ever handled by Europol experts in the fight against child sexual exploitation. It is also one of the biggest cases supported by Europol in recent years.

Catherine De Bolle, Europol Executive Director, commented: "The digital dimension has driven a rapid evolution in online child sexual exploitation, offering offenders a borderless platform to contact and groom victims, as well as to create, store, and exchange child sexual abuse material. Some attempt to frame this as merely a technical or cyber issue – but it is not. There are real victims behind these crimes, and those victims are children."As a society, we must act to protect our children."