This archive report was first published on 21 August 2019.
On August 21, 2019, Spanish police arrested a 53-year-old Colombian national suspected of secretly recording videos of over 500 women, including minors, on public transit and supermarkets.
The man allegedly used a mobile phone concealed inside a backpack to take pictures up women’s skirts in Madrid without their consent, a practice known as “upskirting”.
He then uploaded at least 283 of these videos to a pornographic site where they were viewed over a million times.
According to Rafael Fernandez of the cybercrime unit of Spain’s national police, the man operated in the metro and commuter trains and in some cases followed women from the metro to supermarkets to continue recording them.
Officers seized a laptop and three hard drives from his home which had videos with images of hundreds of women whom he secretly recorded.
Police have so far managed to identify 29 of the women, who have filed criminal complaints against the man.
The man has been charged with violating privacy, corruption as well as child abuse and child prostitution since some of his victims were underage.
