Toro Bravo was a child pornography production company based in Bogota, [[Bogota|Colombia]], headed by [[Jean Manuel Vuillaume]]. The company produced films showing children gagged, tortured, and raped, which were distributed internationally through mail order networks. [[Michel Caignet]] served as the distribution link in France, duplicating and selling the Colombian-produced videos. Caignet was also director of [[Gaie France]], a neo-Nazi pedophile magazine. Caignet claimed the films were shot in Vuillaume's house in Bogota and then brought to France for duplication and sale by mail order. When Vuillaume was arrested at Roissy airport in 1995, prosecutors claimed 38 pornography videos, sadomasochistic material, and a child-sized toreador costume seen in one of the films were found in his house in Bogota.[^1] Toro Bravo's associates included [[Philippe Desnous]], who used the alias "Bernard Alapetite." The production and distribution ring was uncovered in 1995 when investigators traced [[Michel Caignet]] and his associates through films and magazines found during a raid on the home of [[Daniel Waillez]], who had advertised for underage contacts. Waillez's collection led investigators to [[La Moutte]], a Paris company where Caignet served as director and [[Michel Meignez de Cacqueray|Michel Meignez de Cacqueray]] served as treasurer. The Toro Bravo connection to broader pedophile networks extended through [[Nicolas Glencross]], a British-born French priest arrested in 1989 during a prior investigation into Caignet and his associates. Glencross was using his rectory in the French commune of Saint-Leger-des-Vignes to take softcore child pornography photographs of the type Caignet had published in [[Gaie France]]. The link between Glencross and the Toro Bravo neo-Nazi pornographers was through [[Joseph Douce]], a Belgian pastor who distributed and managed the subscription list for [[Gaie France]].[^1] ### ADO 71 Raids Customer lists for Toro Bravo videos led to large-scale search and seizure raids across France as part of an operation called ADO 71 in 1996 and 1997. Operation ADO 71 resulted in the seizure of several hundred pornographic tapes featuring children, some showing rapes where the perpetrators appeared with their faces uncovered. At least five men taken into police custody during the operation committed suicide. The operation was named after the Colombian film production company at the center of the distribution network. Investigators obtained a large client file at the home of a professor in Cluny, near Macon, during the 1996 phase of the operation.[^1] ### Footnotes [^1]: Dovey, S. (2023). *Eye of the Chickenhawk*. United States: Thehotstar.