Laguerre keeps walking, but she eventually stops to confront the man, turning to look at him. He strikes her in the face, directly in front of a cafe terrace where a handful of people sit talking and smoking. The timestamp on the footage reveals that the confrontation took place just after 6:30 p.m. — nearly three hours before sunset.<doc-sep>Send this page to someone via email Parisians are rallying behind a woman who was hit in the face during a confrontation with an alleged street harasser. Marie Laguerre said she was walking to her home in Paris on July 24 when a man whistled at her and said “humiliating and provocative” things to her. In a Facebook post about the incident, Laguerre said that since it wasn’t the first incident of that kind of the day, she told him “ta gueule,” which translates to “shut up.” “Because I don’t tolerate this kind of behavior. I can’t keep quiet and we mustn’t keep quiet,” she wrote, originally in French. That’s when she said the harasser turned around and followed her down the street. Story continues below advertisement READ MORE: What to do when confronted with workplace sexual harassment During the confrontation, she said he threw an ashtray at her, which missed her head by inches. In security camera footage from a nearby café, he can then be seen hitting her in the face before running away. “I was in pain, but it got so twisted in a few seconds, I did not realize it right away,” she told the French newspaper. Customers at the café tried to stop the attacker, but he has so far not been identified. Story continues below advertisement Paris police have opened an investigation into the incident, The Guardian reported. The incident is one that lawmaker Marlene Schiappa, the French minister for gender equality, says happens all too frequently. “This video illustrates the continuum of sexist and sexual violence. It starts with obscene noises, then cries and then insults and threats and then a blow. We must stop it from the beginning,” she wrote on Twitter. Tweet This Click to share quote on Twitter: "This video illustrates the continuum of sexist and sexual violence. It starts with obscene noises, then cries and then insults and threats and then a blow. We must stop it from the beginning," she wrote on Twitter. “It is not tolerable that in France, in 2018, women are hit in the street because they refuse to be insulted when they walk. It is a fundamental issue of freedom. That’s why fighting street harassment is a priority,” she continued. « Cette vidéo illustre le continuum des violences sexistes et sexuelles. Ça commence avec des bruits obscènes, puis des cris puis des insultes et menaces puis un coup. Il faut l’arrêter dès le début c’est pourquoi nous mettons au vote la verbalisation du harcèlement de rue» #BFM pic.twitter.com/QNqAE2wthS — 🇫🇷 MarleneSchiappa (@MarleneSchiappa) July 30, 2018 The rules laid out in a bill to be passed this weekend in France would force street harassers would be fined between 90-750 euros (CAD$137-1,144). Repeat offenders could face fines of up to 3,000 euros. Schiappa previously told Reuters that street harassment would include situations such as asking a woman for her phone number a dozen times when she has made clear she is not interested. READ MORE: Interactive exhibit shows Edmonton’s cat-calling street harassers what it feels like 4:53 Art exhibit lets others experience cat calls, street harassment Art exhibit lets others experience cat calls, street harassment – Dec 5, 2017 As for Laguerre, she told Le Parisien she’s happy the café had video of the incident, as such things could be hard to prove. Story continues below advertisement “I am very lucky to have been able to recover the video, it is a good tool for the fight of women,” she said. On Facebook, she wrote: “These men who think they’re all allowed on the street, who can humiliate us and don’t stand to be offended, that’s unacceptable.”<doc-sep>French prosecutors are investigating after a video went viral, showing a young woman being assaulted for confronting a man she accuses of sexual harassment, local media reported on Monday. Security camera footage shows 22-year-old student Marie Laguerre walking outside a Paris cafe in broad daylight. In a Facebook post, she said a man made lewd comments towards her — "not the first time it had happened to me that day." Read more: Spain's Pamplona launches app to stop sexual assaults at bull-running festival She said she told him to "shut up" before walking away. Footage provided by a cafe then shows the man grabbing an ashtray from the crowded cafe patio and throwing it at her. He then doubles back towards her. When Laguerre confronts him he strikes her across the face. Laguerre filed a complaint with police and later shared the video on social media, writing: "Because I responded to his harassment, a man hit me in the street, in the middle of the day, in front of dozens of witnesses. Unacceptable. Stop street harassment." The video was widely shared and it was picked up the Le Parisien newspaper on Monday with the front-page headline "Filmed proof." "What's at stake is serious: It's the freedom of women to move about in freedom in public," France's equality minister, Marlene Schiappa, told the paper. She said the government was hoping to push through a law later this year to punish sexual harassment in public spaces with on-the-spot fines, part of President Emmanuel Macron's pledge to combat sexism. Each evening at 1830 UTC, DW's editors send out a selection of the day's hard news and quality feature journalism. You can sign up to receive it directly here.<doc-sep>Paris (CNN) A man has been caught on video forcefully slapping a woman after he allegedly sexually harassed her on the streets of Paris. The man is seen walking by a streetside cafe when he picks up an ashtray from a table and throws it over customers' heads in the woman's direction. He then comes face to face with her, waving his hands, before striking a blow and turning around to walk away. The woman, Marie Laguerre, posted CCTV footage of the incident on her Facebook account, saying that she was on her way home on Tuesday last week when the man started whistling and making noises at her, and said "dirty words that were humiliating and provocative as I passed by him." "Bad luck, he was not the first one that day and I was tired. So I said 'shut up' as I walked away," she wrote. "Because I do not tolerate this kind of behavior. I cannot shut up and we must not shut up." She described how the man threw the ashtray at her and started following her. Read More<doc-sep>
Paris prosecutors opened an investigation Monday after a young woman was assaulted by a street harasser after telling him to stop – in full view of a terrace full of people and CCTV cameras in Paris's 19th arrondissement (district). Advertising Read more The Paris public prosecutor's office opened an investigation Monday after a young woman lodged a complaint against a man who harassed her in the street and then followed her, hitting her in the face after she told him to stop making obscene remarks. The victim obtained a CCTV video of the incident that has since gone viral on social media. The investigation involves sexual harassment and violence with a weapon since he also threw an ashtray at the victim, resulting in an injury that will cause her to miss some work, French media reported. Marie Laguerre, 22, posted footage of the incident on her Facebook page, describing how the man launched a series of "humiliating" comments coupled with whistles and explicit language as she was on her way home in northeastern Paris. Woman harassed then assaulted on a Paris street "So I let out a, "Shut up!" while making my way," she wrote. "Because I do not tolerate this type of behaviour. I cannot keep silent and we must not be silent." But "this man didn't like that", she continued, explaining that he first threw an ashtray at her before following her and then "hitting her in the face in the street, in broad daylight, in front of dozens of witnesses". Her Facebook post was accompanied by the video surveillance from the bar in front of which the incident took place. The video has so far been retweeted hundreds of times and the public video on Facebook has received hundreds of comments. She also tweeted about the incident, saying she was attacked only because she responded to this man's provocation. "Unacceptable. Stop street harassment," she wrote. Parce que j'ai répondu à son harcèlement, un homme m'a frappée en pleine rue, en pleine journée, devant des dizaines de témoins. Inadmissible. Stop au harcèlement de rue. #noustoutes #metoo #balancetonporc #harcelementderue @MarleneSchiappa https://t.co/lV9AIKndlX Marie Laguerre (@may_lgr) July 28, 2018 The French government announced in March that sexual harassment on French streets or in public transport would soon be punishable by an on-the-spot fine of €90. In announcing the measure, a government spokesman cited a 2016 survey that found 87 percent of women who use public transport had experienced harassment such as wolf whistles or comments on their appearance, intrusive staring or someone pressing up against them. Only 2 percent of these women went so far as to file a police complaint, although in more than 85 percent of cases at least one witness was present. Screen grab from Facebook page of Marie Laguerre Daily newsletterReceive essential international news every morning Subscribe