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Originally Posted by mgardner
In Catalan: hxxps://www.ccma.cat/324/gravar-done...ticia/3120760/
Galician judge rules that setting up secret recording devices to record women (i.e. the "Galician Gotta Go" series) is not a crime.
"No existeix delicte contra la intimitat i la pròpia imatge perquè l'enregistrament es va fer a la via pública."
(there is no crime against against "intimacy" and the "self-image" because the recording is done in a public place) (quick translation) |
A full google translation:
Burning women urinating on the street and uploading it to porn websites is not a crime, says a judge
In Galicia, a magistrate has rejected for the second time the complaint of a women's association against hidden camera recordings uploaded to pornographic websites
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28/09/2021 - 17.13 Updated 28/09/2021 - 17.12
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For the second time, the head of the court of instruction number 1 of Viveiro, in Galicia, has rejected the complaint filed by a group of women who were secretly recorded while urinating during a popular party.
The images were obtained with hidden cameras placed on purpose and then uploaded to pornographic websites, some of which were paid. In all, about eighty women were recorded.
The events took place in the summer of two years ago during A Maruxaina, a festival that brings together thousands of people in the town of San Cibrao, in the municipality of Cervo, in Lugo.
The alley was used to defecate due to the lack of public restrooms for all attendees.
Demonstration in San Cibrao, last April, in support of women recorded during the A Maruxaina festival (Europa Press / Carlos Castro)
Precisely, the first argument of Judge Pablo Muñoz Vázquez to dismiss the complaint is that there is no crime against privacy and one's own image because the recording was made on the public road.
Nor does it consider that any crime against moral integrity has been committed because “the tendentious intent to break the physical and moral resistance” of the women who were recorded is not appreciated.
A "humiliating" fact
For this reason, as he did for the first time in March, the judge has again decided to temporarily suspend the complaint filed by the association Women in Equality Burela (Bumei), which has already filed a second appeal, this once before a higher instance, the Provincial Court of Lugo.
María del Mar Fraga, president of Bumei, considers that what happened is "humiliating" and that "a crime like this, which attacks honor and one's own image, cannot be justified because it has been perpetrated in the public road".
In statements to the EFE agency he also recalled that the institution of the ombudsman, the Galician equivalent of the ombudsman, and "society in general" have also considered that the facts constitute a crime.
The Public Prosecutor's Office does see it as a crime
The judge's decision is also not shared by the Prosecutor's Office, which considers that the recording with hidden cameras of women defecating in a secluded place does constitute a crime against privacy and that there could also be a crime against integrity. moral.