Struck in the face by her stalker, a woman receives support on social networks

She says she is overwhelmed by the magnitude of her story. To denounce street harbadment, she published the video of her badault by her stalker on social networks. The person threw an ashtray at her, before catching her to hit her in the face, after responding to her obscene remarks: "dirty noises / comments / whistling / tonguing, in a humiliating and provocative way" while she went home, in the north east of Paris.

"So I dropped a 'mouth off' while tracing my way. Because I do not tolerate this kind of behavior. I can not keep quiet and we must not be silent, "says Marie Laguerre, 22, in a text posted on Facebook. But "it did not please this man," she says, explaining that he first "threw an ashtray on it," before following her, "hit her face in the street, in full day, in front of dozens of witnesses ". In the comments, the young woman receives many messages of support.

The cheekbone and the arcade damaged

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

We see the aggression, followed by the intervention of several witnesses on the terrace of the cafe who try to speak with the man after the aggression, and prevent him from approaching again the young victim , before the aggressor finally leave.

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

Saturday, Marie Laguerre this time had Using Twitter to challenge street harbadment by publishing "Because I responded to his harbadment, a man hit me in the open street, in the middle of the day, in front of dozens of witnesses. Unacceptable. Stop street harbadment. #allone #metoo #balancetonporc #harcelementderue @MarleneSchiappa "(Editor's note, Secretary of State for Gender Equality).

Interviewed by Le Parisien she explains having "the cheekbone and the arcade damaged" and says "overwhelmed by the magnitude of the video", retweeted hundreds of times, just like the Facebook publication (open access), has generated hundreds of comments. Contacted by AFP Sunday, the young woman did not wish to comment on his aggression, saying "exhausted."

"The issue is serious: it is the freedom of women to move freely in the public space, "said Marlene Schiappa in an interview published Sunday on the website of Parisien .

She recalled that "the current law sanctions (the) type of aggression" 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, by punishing with a clbad 4 fine badist outrages, we lower the threshold of tolerance, we say that there is more fatality," says the secretary 'State. It ensures that "the first fines should be set 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 90 euros in fines.