The Public Security Police Force (PSP) arrested a local man in his 20s for illicitly recording women’s private body parts on public buses, a PSP spokesman said during a regular press conference yesterday.
According to the spokesman, the police received a report on Sunday from an alert passenger who spotted the suspect using his mobile phone to surreptitiously film two female commuters while travelling on a bus. The passenger tailed the suspect after he alighted in Taipa and confronted him. The suspect admitted to filming the women, prompting the passenger to contact the police.
PSP officers later examined the suspect’s mobile phone and uncovered more than 1,000 suspected illicit videos, some dating back two years. Among them were 23 videos recorded on the day of the incident alone, involving at least three female victims, the spokesman added.
The suspect, surnamed Chou, targeted women’s legs, areas beneath their skirts, and women wearing shorts. One video clip showed him pursuing two women onto a bus at the Praça Ferreira Amaral bus terminus and filming them for at least 10 minutes.
The two women were unaware they were being recorded.
Chou was transferred to the Public Prosecution Office (MP) on suspicion of invasion of privacy and unlawful recording and photography.
This undated handout photo provided by the Public Security Police Force (PSP) yesterday shows PSP officers escorting the illicit recording suspect to a police van.
