By Anne Bouaziz
Published on
updated on 28 Jul 21 at 21:59
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It is midnight on Saturday July 24, 2021 at Marseille (Bouches-du-Rhône), when Eva goes home after an evening spent with a friend.
“On the way I passed a man who seemed to be urinating, so I changed the sidewalk. A few meters further on, I cross paths with him again and in fact he was not at all urinating but masturbating ”tells the young woman aged 28 to Marseille news.
Exhibition victim
“My first instinct was therefore to put my hand in my bag to take my keys, but he must have thought that I was going to call the police because he left running,” explains Eva.
Concerned that this scene happens to another woman, Eva decides to contact a policewoman she knows for advice. “She tells me the police can take a handrail.” Determined to report these facts, Eva goes to the Noailles police station in the 1is arrondissement of Marseille, Sunday 25 July 2021 in the morning.
“The police officer at the reception informs me that there is about two hours of waiting but that it is important that I put down a handrail. He advises me to come back on Monday morning ”.
” Leave a trace “
The young woman then warns her police acquaintance who tells her to surrender Monday July 26 to Carthusian police station, in the 4e arrondissement.
“I went there for 8.45 am and on the spot they ask me why I am there etc. The policewoman at the reception tells me that there is a bit of a wait and that I have to go and wait outside because of the sanitary measures ”.
After several minutes, “the policewoman explains to me that she spoke with her superiors and told me that they will not receive me because” if we have to go to the police station every time we are called a slut outside we does not get by ”…” quotes Eva.
“I walked out angry. I had the feeling that I had done my duty as a citizen when it is already not pleasant to go to the police stations. And I said to myself that for all the others it was important to point it out in order to leave a mark ”asserts the young woman.
Different versions of the facts
The version is not quite the same on the side of the police headquarters, which immediately recalls that “the quality of the reception of victims is a major priority for the police headquarters of Bouches-du-Rhône and for the Directorate. department of public security ”.
If Eva explains that she left the police station after being refused to file her handrail, the prefecture declares the following: “At the reception, she was told that there was a waiting time again. This person then chose to leave the place by expressing his dissatisfaction ”.
Facts disputed by Eva who repeats at the end of the line: “their version is false. My friend who accompanied me is a witness ”specifies the young woman.
An experience relayed on Twitter
“I didn’t think it would be so complicated” confides Eva who regrets this turn: “there is a lot of communication around these attacks but in reality, we do not even have the possibility of crossing the reception bar”.
This bad experience in the Carthusian police station prompted Eva to relay it on her Twitter account.
1⃣I tested for you to go to the Police Station after being followed by a man who masturbated near my home in Marseille.
#Thread ⬇️– EVA VOCZ ???????? (@EvaVocz) July 26, 2021
Her story has been retweeted over 800 times, cited a hundred times, and liked over 1,700 times. Several elected officials have also come into contact with the young woman since.
“The sector mayor followed me on Twitter, and the deputy mayor of the City of Marseille Théo Challande wrote to me”. The latter has also reacted publicly to this affair:
Article 15-3 of the Code of Criminal Procedure is binding: “Judicial police officers and agents are required to receive complaints lodged by victims of offenses against criminal law”. (1/3) https://t.co/GpmNyf2xWH
– Théo Challande Névoret ☀️???? (@TheoChallande) July 27, 2021
“Many, far too many complaints of assault or rape are not received or filed. And it is serious. »Continues the elected official who recommends a support tool for the complaint in the case of sexual assault or rape.
the # chat of https://t.co/N50fcJvjPw According to some • es an excellent tool to support complaints, particularly in the case of sexual assault or rape.@EvaVocz, are you trying, are you giving us feedback?
Have you ever tried? What do you think?
– Théo Challande Névoret ☀️???? (@TheoChallande) July 27, 2021
Currently traveling abroad, the police headquarters said “that an appointment will be made with her (Eva) on her return to take her complaint under the best conditions and find the perpetrator of the offense so that ‘he is answerable for his acts before justice ”.
The images from CCTV cameras have since been viewed and the police acquaintance contacted Eva again. Wednesday July 28 at the end of the day. These go “in line with my statement” reports the young woman. “I will finally be able to file a complaint on my return from Spain!” “.
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