Arrested for photographing young women bathing in their underwear and topless on the beach

SPAIN / By Cruz Ramiro

They had been partying through the bars in the center of Malaga and decided that there was no better way to end the night than to bathe in the sea and immortalize the moment with a souvenir photo.. It is the journey lived by a group of girls who surprised an individual who was supposedly photographing them when they were bathing on the beach in their underwear and topless.. Pictures he allegedly shared.

Police sources consulted by El Confidencial confirmed these facts, as well as the arrest of a 35-year-old man, of French origin, who is being investigated for a crime against privacy and whose mobile phone was intervened to analyze the material. that stored.

The police intervention took place at around 8:00 on Wednesday on the well-known La Malagueta beach, after a young woman contacted Room 091 to alert that, together with her friends, she was holding an individual who had apparently been photographing them without their authorization.

Several patrols of the National Police traveled to the place, whose components met with the young people and the individual to try to clarify what happened.. The victims, in their twenties and Spanish, said that at night they were having fun in the entertainment area of the city center and that, once they left the bar area, they decided to go to the beach with the intention of bathing and taking some photographs..

The aforementioned sources explained that the young women, not having a bathing suit, entered the sea in their underwear and practicing topless.. And then they met to take a group photo with which to immortalize the moment. So he told the group. One of the girls caught his attention and went to where he was, the sources consulted pointed out, adding that he asked the man to allow him to see the gallery of images. He lent himself and said that there were no photographs of them, but at that moment a Messenger message was observed on the screen informing them of the sending of an image of one of the victims.. Sources close to the case indicated that the photo was supposedly received by a friend of the person under investigation..

The agents ended up arresting the suspect, a 35-year-old French individual, for a crime against privacy and transferred him to the premises of the provincial police station to continue the proceedings.. The young women were also taken to police stations to file a complaint and give a statement..

This is the second case of similar characteristics that occurred in the capital of Malaga during that early morning. The first took place in Terminal 2 of the airport. Sources consulted by this newspaper explained that the victim, a Spanish woman who was preparing to catch a flight, was using the women's toilet when she felt something on top of her head.. Reflexively looking up, he saw a hand holding a mobile phone coming from one of the adjoining rooms.

“The victim hurriedly left the bathroom and surprised a man with his cell phone coming out of it,” according to the aforementioned body, which added that “a struggle began between the two in an attempt by the woman to get hold of the terminal to deliver it to police”. The detainee, a 27-year-old Italian, is being investigated as the alleged perpetrator of a crime of discovery and disclosure of secrets.