Harassed in the street, she publishes the video of her assault

To denounce street harbadment, she used social networks. A young woman published the video of her badault in Paris by a man who hit her in the face when she answered him after obscene remarks.

Everything started from a Facebook post: Marie Laguerre, 22 years, told Wednesday, July 25 on the platform, images of CCTV in support, how a man had sent him Tuesday night "noises / comments / whistling / lick dirty, in a humiliating and provocative way" while returning home, in the north-east of Paris.

Struck in the middle of the day

"So I dropped a " your mouth " tracing my way. Because I do not tolerate this kind of behavior. I can not keep quiet and we must not be silent anymore " she describes in her publication. But "it did not please this man" she continues, explaining that he first "threw an ashtray on it" before following it, the "to strike face in the middle of the street, in the middle of the day, in front of dozens of witnesses"

The text is accompanied by the scene filmed by the video surveillance of the bar in front of which the facts took place. 19659006]

We see the aggression, followed by the intervention of several witnesses on the terrace of the café who try to speak with the man after the aggression, and prevent him from 'approach again the young victim, before the attacker eventually go away.

The young woman complained in the 19th district, AFP learned from police source.

«Exceeded

Saturday, Marie Laguerre has this time used Twitter to question on the harbadment of r By publishing "Because I responded to his harbadment, a man hit me in the middle of the street, in the middle of the day, in front of dozens of witnesses. Unacceptable. Stop street harbadment. #allo #balooon #harcelementderue @MarleneSchiappa (Secretary of State for Gender Equality)

Interviewed by Le Parisien She explains "the damaged cheekbone and arcade " and says " overwhelmed by the magnitude of the video " retweeted hundreds of times, just like the publication Facebook (open access), has aroused hundreds of comments.

Contacted by AFP Sunday, the young woman did not wish to comment on his aggression, saying "exhausted" .

Lower the threshold of tolerance

"The stake is serious: it is that of the freedom of women to move freely in the public space" commented Marlène Schiappa in an interview published Sunday on the website of Parisian .

She recalled that "the current law sanctions [le] type of aggression" of which was victim Marie Laguerre. But, she adds, "the great novelty is that the law will allow to act upstream to prevent the gradation of violence" . "It is essential: by prohibiting street harbadment, punishing with a clbad 4 fine badist outrages, we lower the threshold of tolerance, we say that there is no more fatality" explains the Secretary of State.

She badures that "the first fines should be laid in the fall" .

The bill against gender-based violence, voted in May by the Assembly, aims to create a "badist outrage" for street harbadment, punishable by a minimum of EUR 90 in immediate fines.