"I Thought I Wouldn't Get Caught": the Trial of an Ordinary Voyeur in the Parisian Swimming Pools
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RECIT. A 38-year-old man was sentenced to ten months' suspended imprisonment for filming a woman changing in the changing rooms of a Parisian swimming pool.
On Friday 13 June, a 38-year-old man was sentenced to ten months' suspended imprisonment for breach of privacy. The civil party, Laurene Daycard, wanted to highlight systemic violence still too often trivialized.
Last April, journalist Laurene Daycard alerted about the voyeurism women are experiencing in swimming pools. With the "HuffPost", the Paris City Hall details the measures being deployed (or already deployed) against this problem.


The man caught filming a woman with his phone in a Paris pool cabin in April, sparking a wave of social media accounts after the victim spoke out, went on trial Friday and received a ten-month suspended prison sentence. He acknowledged that this was not the first time he had committed voyeurism.
Judged on Friday 13 June 2025 at the Paris court, the 38-year-old assailant conceded that he had recidivated several times because of the impunity he enjoyed.
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