The 55 -year -old man arrested yesterday by the National Police had recorded the intimate parts of more than 555 women in the Madrid Metro, the Cercanías and several supermarkets network.In those scenarios he had achieved up to 283 videos.Clips he edited at home by adding songs or slowing down scenes.If you got your faces, better.As reported by the police force, he recorded his victims - without importing his age, there are two minors in the videos - every day, on the journeys to his work, in a "compulsive" way and without them being aware of it.From the analysis of the videos, the agents have determined that he had repeated and perfected his way of operating: he had the mobile hidden in a balaclava inside a backpack that placed under the legs of the women.A profile had been created on a porn web page that had 3.519 Subscribers, 84.594 visits and a total of 1.367.999 Visualizations of your publications.

The arrested is not the only one dedicated to recording below the women's skirts.Just type Upskirt on Google.Almost 300.000 results with many websites that house amateur or stolen videos where the intimate parts of women are recorded without them noticing.The Anglo -Skirting term describes the action taking a photograph with intrusive sexual connotation below a woman's skirt and without the consent of this.The predators who practice it usually do so in public transport, discos or take advantage of crowds so that the victim is not aware that they are taking the photo.

Spain meets its first case of high media magnitude regarding this voyeuristic practice that threatens the intimacy of women, an offense rather than rooted at a global scale.In the United Kingdom it is a criminal offense since last April, after activist Gina Martin pressed the House of Lords to be typified in the law.Martin caught a guy recording under his skirt at a festival, went to denounce him to the police and there they told him that there was no crime any crime.Twenty months later, the UPSKIRTING LAW was approved, which allows the police to be able to stop those suspected of practicing it at the time.Predators can face up to five years.

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Beyond the progress of the United Kingdom in this area or of Scotland, Australia and New Zealand, which also have it typified as a crime itself, the helplessness of women without a specific legal framework for these cases according to the country in which it happens islatent.The lawyer Paula Ibañez refers to article 197 of the Criminal Code, where it is specified that if "the intimacy of another is violated" with "recording or listening artifice" the accused can be to face the prison, "punished with the prison sentences of prisonone to four years and a fine of twenty -four months ».

As Lara Sánchez de Aba lawyers remembered here, if we find that image in one of these infinite Internet forums, Sánchez recommends screening and denouncing, because the police can track the IP and find the mirror in question.In this case, according to the lawyer, a conviction of up to five years could be applied for the criminal, for the crime of revelation and discovery of secrets.Civil could also be sued, as intrusion to privacy, and demand economic compensation.For his part, Consuelo Abril, a specialist lawyer in gender violence, indicates that in the face of the Spanish case that has transcended, he could act in three ways: «At first, it is being attentive against the intimacy of the victim;Second, the image of it is disseminated without her consent and, in third, it is proved after it is done repeatedly ».

The standardized consumption of this type of videos has led to its expansion beyond pornographic servers.In Reddit, the threads of 'Creepshots' have beenunderwear.One of the most popular was the case of a user who denounced how an institute professor came to hang an album of his students, minors, in MiniFalda without being penalized.

In Spain, the judicial resolutions regarding these types of cases are ambiguous, according to the SER chain in 2014, a man was arrested in Covelo, a municipality of Pontevedra, for recording the women below the skirt when they walked through thestreet.Like the predator arrested today, he hid the phone in a bag that concealed the victims concealed.The man was charged with a crime against people's privacy, although the judge determined that it was a fault and not a crime, not being damaged the image of women for not being able to see their face.However, it has been sentenced with three crimes against privacy to the worker of the Toledo Economic Court who recorded his companions.In the case of the owner of the bar who recorded 326 women, the prosecutor requested a sentence of 333 years in prison for 98 crimes against privacy (discovery and revelation of secrets) and 22 crimes aggravated against privacy, since those 22 victims wereMinors, but the judge described all crimes within the so -called "homogeneous ideal contest", understanding that although the intimacy of a plurality of people was injured, he did so with a single action.

The sexual siege of women in this area is globalized.The summer of 2018, in the center of Seoul, capital of South Korea, more than 40.000 women demonstrated against the pornography spread and recorded with hidden cameras that capture them in public bathrooms, on the mechanical stairs or while walking.With banners such as "my life is not your porn" or "South Korea, nation of the Spycam", the Koreans were planted against the epidemic of hidden pornographic cameras to record them without their consent.According to the newspaper through Korea Exposé, between 2012 and 2017, of the almost 30.000 suspects denounced before the police, less than 3% were arrested by the police.Not only does it happen in Asia: last May, the owner of a bar in Navarra was sentenced to four years in prison for having placed a hidden camera in his bathroom where he had recorded 326 women.The Provincial Court of Toledo sentenced a worker from the city's economic-administrative court to record, also, his co-workers when they went to the bathroom.