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"Mr President, when an adult sexually abuses a child it is a horrendous crime that results in trauma for the child and will affect the rest of his or her life. The brutal violation often does not end when the perpetrator has finished and moved on. Soon images and video clips are posted on the Internet showing the assault over and over again.
In the directive that we are to vote on now, the EU takes strong line against both of these types of crime, that is to say those that happen in real life and those that occur on the Internet. After long and difficult negotiations with the Council and the Commission, the European Parliament can now be pleased that it has a well thought-out legislative proposal, which for the first time in the EU’s history requires the Member States to prosecute child sex tourists who commit crimes in a country outside Europe.
I would like to thank the rapporteur, Ms Angelilli, and the other shadow rapporteurs for their excellent cooperation, which led to a result that we can all be very proud of.
It was not previously possible for an EU citizen, a Swede for example, who engages in so-called child sex tourism, in other words abuses children, outside the EU, in Thailand for example, to be prosecuted in his or her home country. At the same time, legal proceedings have very rarely been brought against the perpetrators in the country in question, in Thailand for example, and so they have been able to exploit children with impunity. The directive we are debating today will put a stop to this by requiring the Member States to prosecute any citizen who commits these horrendous crimes in a country outside Europe. This will make a significant contribution to limiting these crimes, and since the extent of these crimes is due to the fact that it has quite simply been easy to avoid punishment, fewer children will be exploited.
Abuse on the Internet can also be tackled by forcing the Member States to take measures to remove the child pornography at its source, in other words from the servers. When the websites are located in a country outside EU territory, we must be able to remove them by blocking them. Thus, we cannot guarantee that they will be removed from the servers, but we are instructing the Member States to increase their cooperation with third countries in order to obtain access to the websites. Blocking material could be a supplementary option for the Member States to use if they have not succeeded in deleting the material at source.
With the Angelilli report, the European Parliament has issued a clear message that what we cannot accept in real life, we cannot accept on the Internet, either. The work on this directive is a huge success for us all, and I would like to thank everyone once again for their cooperation."@en1
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