The French High Commissioner for Children, Sarah el Haïry, indicated on Wednesday that she had taken legal action over two sites which “put child criminals in contact”, the day after the announcement of the opening of an investigation into Cocoland, a platform accused of having facilitated the commission of sexual assaults.
The High Commissioner announced that she had initiated a referral to the public prosecutor and the digital regulatory and illicit content reporting authorities regarding the sites Chaat.fr and le enfant.net.
These are “sites which today put child criminals in contact”, where “there is no age verification”, where “there are messages of a sexual nature which are transmitted to users”, she declared on the private radio RMC.
“Children and minors are accosted by predators, we must put an end to these gray zones,” she added, specifying that a third site, Chatiw, was also in her sights.
These statements come the day after the announcement by the Paris prosecutor’s office of the opening of an investigation into the reappearance, under the name Cocoland, of the Coco website.
Registered abroad, considered a den of predators by child protection associations and implicated in homophobic ambushes and in the rape case suffered by Gisèle Pelicot, Coco was closed by the courts in June 2024.
Its founder, the Italian Isaac Steidl, was indicted on January 9, 2025 in Paris, notably for complicity in drug trafficking, possession and distribution of child pornography images, corruption of a minor via the Internet and criminal conspiracy. He disputes the accusations.
For Sarah el Haïry, “we must hold everyone responsible”.
“We must seek out the men who, today, send these images, we must hold the host and the publisher responsible, the one who accepts that there is no age control,” she added.
