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"Mr President, It is good that we are having this debate on child pornography on the Internet. Apart from a few rather coarse, ignorant contributions from my opponent, what has been said has been very sensible. I would like to point out that, in actual fact, many paedophiles assault children that are close to them. It is not divorce, alcoholism or anything else that encourages this behaviour. It is fairly well known that being sexually aroused by children is not exactly normal behaviour, and for that we should be grateful.
The Internet makes exchanging pictures easier, and it is this we should be discussing. I agree totally with Mrs Maes that we have excellent police authorities working with these issues. However, in relation to how the problem has increased, there are not enough of them to be able to examine the whole situation. It is, therefore, a shame that we are immediately about to call in Europol. We have had discussions with representatives from Europol with respect to trafficking in women and children, and they say that they have two reports. However, these reports are not official, so only Europol is aware of Europol's own activities. This is a problem.
The police that I have been in contact with in my own country, Sweden, who are working on these issues via Interpol, need, of course, more support, just like their colleagues in other countries. For this is not only an issue within the EU. There is also much to do when it comes to Thailand, the Philippines and other places around the world, something the police authorities are working on. It is not exclusively in Western Europe that this issue is being dealt with.
There is one aspect of this matter that has not come up very often in the responses to this report, but which I would, nevertheless, like to raise in the debate, namely the rehabilitation of the victims. The problem with the Internet is that the pictures are so clear. Older children are at risk of being continuously pursued on the net and of being recognised for ever and a day. We must consider how we in the Member States are to take care of the children that have been victims of this crime and whose photographs are on the net.
In Sweden we have also had experience of people finding their way into the school system or child care because they are paedophiles. It is a shame that we have not discussed the enormous cutbacks and extensive privatisation in these areas. Of course, we must perhaps also ensure, as a preventative measure, that no-one works alone with children, either in the private or the public school systems or within the child care profession and in other positions.
I truly welcome this debate. However, I would like us to remember that paedophilia is not a common, widespread activity, a fact for which, as I have already said, we must be grateful."@en1
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