They arrested a Canadian who took photos of a woman on a flight from Puerto Escondido

In the last few hours, the detention of a man of Canadian origin, approximately 50 years old, who was discovered taking photos of at least one woman on a flight departing from Puerto Escondido, a tourist destination in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca, went viral on social media.

User @anapandal explained through a Twitter thread she explained what happened, since she, as she pointed out, was among the passengers of the flight she refers to was Viva Aerobus. He first began by recognizing the performance of the flight crew, as he considered, they acted promptly but professionally.

“Today I witnessed what seemed to me to be an excellent handling of a dangerous situation by @VivaAerobus. On my flight VB1189 from PXM to MEX a foreign man in his 50s was taking pictures of a 20-something Mexican woman,” he wrote.

Then, he said that the flight staff asked him for his mobile phone to corroborate what he was doing and they actually found the photos taken of the passenger. Another user explained in a series of tweets that she was behind this man and could see that the photos were not casual but focused on the woman's underwear, in a part that was visible.

“I was on that flight, my friend and my boyfriend saw everything, the girl's partner was the one who reported everything, insisted until they heard it and did something, but at first it seemed that they were giving him the plane, but he didn't stop, I saw the courage in his eyes, it was a horrible situation,” said another user.

Then, the main account continues, elements of the National Guard took the Canadian man arrested, who was arrested for violate the Olympia Act, which criminalizes rape or virtual harassment.

It should be recalled that the Olympia Law punishes those who perpetrate digital and media violence, harassment and dissemination of sexual content and imposes prison sentences of up to six years on those who disseminate intimate images without consent. The Mexican Senate indicated that the legal reform considers rape of sexual intimacy as crimes, which involves recording videos, audios, taking photographs, printing, sharing, disseminating or publishing content of the person involved.

On the other hand, another Twitter user warned that the detainee could be a Canadian identified as Andrew Greenwood who was already registered and had even been arrested in Puerto Escondido itself for having photographed women while they were bathing on the beaches of that place. He even pointed out that in his own country he was marked by voyeurism.

“This bastard, disgusted as a human being, filmed me, among other women bathing on the beach. Among other things, he has a history in Canada and who knows in which other countries. I have already taken care of filing my complaint but they are going to release it during the investigation, I ask for your support by sharing it so that everyone knows”, read screenshots of a Facebook post, shared by the author of the tweet.

Another woman, named Nury, replied to that publication stating that she was sitting on the flight next to the detainee and that, in fact, she was the same person. “I was the one sitting next to him on the plane and if it was him,” he wrote.

“Anyway, this situation made me think about what we owe A. @OlimpiaCMujer and #LeyOlimpia. B. The urgency of training the tourism industry to establish strict protocols and manage situations of danger of trafficking in persons effectively. And C. The importance of training the National Guard to have a holistic approach to situations of gender-based violence and to know how to act in these cases, with due process, and also with a special sensitivity to their seriousness”, concludes the thread on Twitter.

The Olimpia Law is named after the activist Olimpia Coral Melo, originally from Puebla, who suffered violence from her ex-partner who shared an intimate video of her in her teens, that action led her to think about suicide because they made violent comments towards her person.

“One of the main causes of the 'Olympia Law', beyond the legislative aspect, is to name that violence exists and to recognize it as such in a world where that was not even considered that way, especially in our country, because it had two taboos: that it is virtual, that you don't touch it, and that it is sexual, that always in the absurd revictimization we are guilty for patriarchal society,” Olympia herself told Infobae about her initiative.

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