In the police information and command center in Strasbourg.
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T. Gagnepain / 20 Minutes
Since Tuesday and the testimony of a student complaining of a sexist assault on the pretext that she was wearing a skirt, public condemnations of the assault have multiplied.
"It is necessary that the light be shed on this subject, that the culprits are firmly sanctioned", launched the spokesman of the government, Gabriel Attal.
So where is the investigation?
"In progress", responds the prosecution, which evokes hours of video protection images to analyze.
A difficult exercise despite the 500 cameras scattered throughout the Eurometropolis.
His testimony did not go unnoticed.
The student who revealed having been the victim of a sexist assault last Friday in Strasbourg has since been the subject of all attention.
The malicious acts of the three men she accuses have been condemned to the highest point in the state.
The executive thus announced on Wednesday its "absolute condemnation" of facts "declared very serious".
"In France we must be able to go out dressed in the street as we want (...) We cannot accept that today in France, a woman feels in danger, either harassed, threatened or beaten because of her outfit", added government spokesman Gabriel Attal by calling for justice.
“Light must be shed on this subject, that the guilty be firmly punished.
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In her testimony, the young woman explains having been the target of insulting and sexist remarks: "Look at this bitch in a skirt"
Where are we precisely in the investigations?
Following the victim's filing of a complaint on Sunday at the central police station, an investigation was opened for "violence committed in a meeting followed by incapacity not exceeding eight days".
The case was entrusted to the Departmental Security of Bas-Rhin.
"It's a lottery"
Since ?
"The investigation is underway", responds the prosecution who calls the patient in view of the hours of video protection images to analyze.
The exercise will not be easy.
About 500 cameras are located throughout the city and constantly viewed by a few agents from the video supervision center (CSV) of the Eurometropolis.
"The images are overwritten after 96 hours, hence the need to quickly file a complaint, we explained this morning at the police station, before explaining that this video support" constitutes an aid in the investigation but not is not magic.
All the cameras, which cannot be viewed at the same time by human eyes, in fact rotate a quarter of a turn "every 30 seconds if there is no intervention by an operator".
There was one above the Malraux Media Library, where the student was assaulted on Friday.
But nothing says that the facts could have been captured at that time.
"It's a lottery", sums up a Strasbourg peacekeeper.
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