Filmed urinating in the street, dozens of women, whose stolen videos have landed on pornographic sites, are demanding justice in Spain after the filing of their complaint in mid-March, their spokesperson told AFP. Monday April 5.
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"
We will not stop there as long as these videos continue to generate money, remain online
" even if "
for justice, there is no crime
", told AFP Paloma Maseda Diaz , spokesperson for the 87 complainants in this case which dates back to August 2019, during the popular festival of A Maruxaina, in San Cibrao, in Galicia (north-western Spain).
That summer, without their knowing it, more than a hundred women, including minors, were filmed as they squatted down to urinate in the street.
A year later, after clicking on a link containing the name of the party "
Maruxaina
", a local man
stumbled
upon a pornographic site containing "
a video where he recognized his girlfriend, as well as her cousin. this one,
”said Paloma Maseda Diaz, who was herself filmed.
This is how a total of more than 110 women out of six videos of a total duration of about an hour were identified on various paid X sites, she continued.
"
The person who filmed us knew exactly where to place the cameras
", five in all according to her, positioned "
in the gutter at three different places
".
In the summer of 2020, around 100 women filed a collective complaint for “
violation of privacy
” and “
illegal marketing of pornographic content
”.
But the local court, located in the nearby town of Viveiro, refused on March 15 to open an investigation, ruling that no crime had been committed because "
this is a series of recordings of women urinating. in the street, that is to say, in a public place where they could be seen by anyone who passed by
”, according to the decision, consulted by AFP.
"
The justice closed the file and did not open an investigation because it took place on the public highway
", underlined for her part Mary Fraga, the president of the local branch of the association "
Mujeres En Igualdad
”who brought a civil action.
"
But it was in a dead end alley and the cameras had been installed there by premeditation,
" she argued.
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The plaintiffs immediately appealed and organized a demonstration on Sunday April 4 to protest the court ruling.
Several hundred people took part, according to the organizers.
