Award-winning Greek writer of youngsters’s books arrested by Police for movies of kid pornography

Award-winning kids’s e-book writer Vassilis Papatheodorou has been arrested by police for on-line youngster pornography. The writer by means of his lawyer claims the movies he downloaded had been meant for a e-book venture on the matter.

Vassilis Papatheodorou, a 53-year-old Greek e-book writer for kids and youngsters has been arrested on October 18 and remanded in custody in Tripoli, a southern Greek metropolis. A case was routinely filed with on-line youngster pornography legal costs towards the writer.

The Cyber Crime Division of Greek police introduced on November 2 they arrested a suspect and solved a case of on-line youngster pornography, following info acquired by overseas authorities by means of worldwide police cooperation. The Athens District Legal professional’s Workplace allowed Police to additional examine the case and establish the particular person and his location. The home of the suspect was searched and two onerous drives with recordsdata of kid pornography had been discovered and confiscated and the alleged legal was put in custody. Greater than 90 movies of kid pornography had been reportedly discovered, a few of which featured kids underneath the age of 12.

The police don’t give the identify of the suspect and information of the arrest of Mr. Papatheodorou, which befell in mid-October, was not revealed till now.

In accordance with newsbomb.gr, his lawyer Stavros Georgopoulos says that Mr. Papatheodorou used a selected software program to obtain youngster pornography to assemble materials for a e-book he was engaged on. He argues his consumer downloaded recordsdata in bulk as soon as with no preview and has not watched many of the movies, nor did he intend to know their content material. He mentioned his consumer was in a really dangerous psychological state and that he didn’t anticipate such improvement.

Greek publishing home Kastaniotis introduced on November 2 it stopped its collaboration with Vassilis Papatheodorou “as quickly because it was knowledgeable {that a} legal investigation is underway by the judicial authorities for a critical accusation.” Mr. Papatheodorou additionally headed Kastaniotis kids’s division.

Accusations of kid pornography towards one of the vital well-known authors in Greece have shaken the world of Greek literature.

Mr. Papatheodorou gained a number of awards for his illustrated books for kids and novels for adolescents, together with the Greek state prize for kids’s literature in 2008 and 2010.

The writer was one of many 251 nominees revealed on October 23 for the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award 2023. Following the information of his arrest, the Hellenic Creator’s Society mentioned it was withdrawing his nomination for this award created by the Swedish authorities given yearly for “excellent contribution to kids’s and younger grownup literature.”

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