She finds hidden cameras in her Airbnb in Rouen: “I was raped in my privacy”
By Manon Loubet
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“I was violated in my privacy. » Larissa Angaman, 24, a lodged a complaintSunday, December 11, 2022, for “ invasion of privacy by fixation, recording or transmission of the image of a person”, police station in Dieppe (Seine-Maritime). She indeed discovered hidden cameras in the Airbnb that she rented.
Hidden cameras in an alarm clock and a socket
With two friends and her boyfriend, Larissa has rented an Airbnb accommodation in Rouen, Saturday December 10, 2022, to spend the evening in the Normandy capital. “It was rue Saint-Gervais. I went to bed quite early, around 10-11 p.m. because I had drunk a bit too much. Then when I woke up at 4am, I went to the bathroom and noticed that a small alarm clock was sitting on a shelf. Through a reflection, I noticed that a small lens was hidden behind the screen of this alarm clock. So I woke up my buddy who dismantled the alarm clock. And there was a camera in there with an integrated SD card! “says the young woman with amazement.
Larissa and her boyfriend then search the room and they find the same device in a USB power strip. “We left the accommodation around 11 a.m. on Sunday, and I took the alarm clock and the power strip with me. My dad took them apart and looked at what was on the SD cards. And there were pictures of me in the shower, of my friends going to the bathroom! It’s horrible ! »
A complaint lodged
The young woman immediately alerted Airbnb and filed a complaint with the police. “I think about it all the time since, I even dream about it! It’s stressful ! In one of the videos, the man can be seen setting up the cameras.
I don’t know if these cameras are connected in wifi and if he can watch them in real time? What did this pervert do if he watched these videos? I feel sold.
Contacted by 76news, Airbnb be sure to take this matter very seriously. “As soon as there is an alert from a traveler, the security service suspends the announcement while the investigation takes placesays Airbnb. No one can book this accommodation at the moment. An internal investigation is being conducted within Airbnb. Larissa Angaman’s complaint was forwarded to the Rouen police station.
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