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Teenager indecently filmed Dubai shoppers
Female shoppers should start to consider not wearing revealing clothes or miniskirts in hypermarkets as they might be secretly filmed by people who fix secret cameras in the shopping baskets.
- By Bassam Za'za', Senior Reporter
- Published: 00:05 April 28, 2008
Dubai: Female shoppers should start to consider not wearing revealing clothes or miniskirts in hypermarkets as they might be secretly filmed by people who fix secret cameras in the shopping baskets.
Law enforcement officers are on the trail of such wrongdoers who will be jailed if found guilty.
The issue surfaced recently at Dubai Court of First Instance, which sentenced a man, whose face appeared by chance in an indecent video of women shoppers whom he secretly filmed with his cell phone camera.
The court sentenced the 18-year-old visitor from Azerbaijan to six months in jail. The accused, identified as A.A., will be deported after spending his jail term.
A.A. took 26 indecent snapshots of women shoppers and 14 video clips with his cell phone which he placed in a shopping basket.
The court ordered the confiscation of the snapshots and video footage. During his first appearance in court, A.A, pleaded not guilty and denied the charges.
The Public Prosecution charged him with molesting and breaching the privacy of a number of women by hiding his phone camera in his basket at a hypermarket. He used to pass the shopping basket from underneath the women wearing miniskirts or revealing clothes.
A Maldivian woman reported the accused to the mall's security after she realised that he had filmed her after she noticed that he was doing the same to another woman.
The woman, identified as K., reported the matter to the mall security which summoned the police. A 43-year-old Yemeni policeman questioned the accused, who confessed.
Electrician in court
The court will also issue verdict in a similar case of an electrician who confessed to hiding his phone camera in a shopping basket to secretly film women and teenage girls wearing miniskirts in a hypermarket.
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