The beaches are still crowded on the Atlantic coast at the end of the day while scorching temperatures are still rampant. On Thursday, around 8 p.m., there were a lot of people on the sand of the Gressier beach, in Porge.
This is the moment that a man chose to discreetly photographing children and naked women. This forty-year-old, living in the Bordeaux metropolis, made several shots and ended up attracting the attention of a witness who alerted the CRS swimmers-Sauvetors.
The latter spotted the photographer with their pair of twins and challenged him, not without difficulty, when he came to the hands with a summer who had also noticed his behavior and asked him to look at the photos taken.
The responsiveness of witnesses
The man had got rid of the memory card of his apparatus and threw him into the sand.
Founded by witnesses, it was entrusted to the CRS who gave it to the gendarmes as part of an open investigation for the infringement of privacy by fixing, recording or transmission of the image of a person with a sexual character and detention of the image of a minor with a pornographic and rebellion character.
The photographer was heard by the gendarmes. Four victims of his actions have already made themselves known.
“We see each season this type of business each season,” says Commander Pascal Gensous, coordinator of the swimmers-saveurs on the Neo-Aquitaine coast. “We must salute the responsiveness of the witnesses who immediately alerted our workforce. This made it possible to stop the individual a few minutes later. »»