French court sentences man for upskirting in Senate

"A French court on Tuesday gave a one-year suspended sentence to a former adviser in the Senate for having taken pictures up women's skirts, including in the upper house. Sebastien G, 50, went on trial after two colleagues in 2023 discovered a hard drive in the common area for the right-wing Les Républicains party containing more than 1,800 images, mostly sexual in nature, according to the judge during the trial last month."

"The images included the buttocks and cleavage of clothed women, taken in public places such as the street or Senate, as well as images of an ex-girlfriend photographed naked at the defendant's home. He was reported to Senate authorities the following year and fired after more than two decades in his post. "I never wanted to hurt anyone," he said in court in January, claiming he had never shared the images. He said he had felt the "need to collect the beauty of women"."

A French court gave a former Senate adviser a one-year suspended sentence for taking up-skirt photographs of women, including in the Senate. Colleagues found a hard drive in 2023 in a common area of the right-wing Les Républicains party with more than 1,800 images, mostly sexual. Photos showed buttocks and cleavage of clothed women in public places and nude images of an ex-girlfriend taken at the defendant's home. He was reported, fired after more than two decades, banned from the Senate, and ordered to receive psychological and psychiatric help. In court he said he never wanted to hurt anyone, claimed he had not shared the images, and said he felt the 'need to collect the beauty of women'.

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